CUCUMBERS AND LOVE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 290, 1 November 1875, Page 4

CUCUMBERS AND LOVE.

[ Prom the Danbury News . ]

- A Great Plain young man is keeping company with a Daobnry young woman. Recently he was at her houee, interesting her in a variety of topics. About 10 o'clock one evening, she brought out a bunch of cucumbers dipped in salt. They tasted wonderfully good, and he freely helped himself. Finally, he coneluded that he bad had enough ; but she urged him to take another — a very large oae— -before he went home, which she proceeded to peel herself. He feit that he was running a great risk, but there are precious few men who can resist the appeal of a pair of love-lit eyes back of a freshly-peeled cucumber, and he succumbed. At a quarter to 12 o'clock the same night, Officer Parrott in passing through White-street heard a man groan, and, looking about, found our Great Plain friend hanging over a fence in great distress. He helped him into the office of the lock-up, and administered what remedies be could find at hand, but with little success. The poor fellow was in terrible pain with the gripes. He would sit on a chair, with bands pressed across his stomach, and weave to and fro ; or woujd drop hastily on the floor, and press the afflicted organ against the boards, or turn on his back and draw his knees up to his chin. All the while be pitifully sobbed— "O, Marthy, I didn't think you'd adone it ! O, Marthy, Manhy, how could you adone it ! How Fve loved her. I always got her— ooh I ooh !— got her everything she wanted j and she knew Lain't-much— ooh ! ooh ! — much-OD-the-stooaach, O, Martby, Martby! your pa's cucumbers have fixed your loving John properly. Ooh ! ooh ! My gosh ! my gosh 1" The deeply affected officer immediately rushed after a>,physician, and shortly after the arrival of that worthy, who gava him aa emetic, the unfortunate

John waa sufficiently improved to continue on his way home.