THE ONLY GIRL I EVER LOVED

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 91, 1 September 1877, Page 3

THE ONLY GIRL I EVER LOVED

There is perhaps uo question which young ladies are more apt to ask of their suitors than whether J those" impassioned persons had ever j loved any other girl before. That the interrogatory is occasionally put to enamoured swaius m America, aud that they know how to answer it, is evident from the following; amusing extract from a Transatlantic contemporary :— " Did I ever love any other girl ! repeated a prospective bridegroom m j_usweri;o the tearful query of his intended. Why, darling, of course not ; how could you ask such " a question? You are niy first, my only love. This heart knew no wakening, until the/sunshine of your love streamed m and. woke it to ecstacy. And then he kissed her tenderly, and went honie^ and said to himself,. I must hurry them things outer the way right offyor there'll be a row ; and collected together a great pile of letters,,, written m -all kinds of feminine hands, with lots' of faded flowers and photographs, and locks of hair and bits of faded ribbon, and other things, and when the whble collection had been crammed into the kitchengrate, he drew a deep sigh, and said to himself, " There goes all that's left of undying loves — let " erd flicker."— The "" European Mail:" .-