TO A YOUNG LADY.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8176, 7 May 1895, Page 1

TO A YOUNG LADY.

(With a ,Smai,[. Pklsknt.) [ venture with theso lines to send A gift to one &o far above me« Am 1 too bold ? You've been my friend For scarco two years, you hardly love mo } A very ctiklc sweetheart youj Are too. Your mother may bo vexed, you see ; Your father asked me my intentions, How awkward both for you and me ! No doubt your mother always mentions What you are not to do, or you Are to. Your age— no whispered secret this — • Excuses fervor in these versos ; For you tins dod, for mo a kiss Nt'U tun? I see you with you nurse. For 1 am over Unity, you Are two. Pall Mall Gazette.

Ho ia wiso who known when to hold his poaoo. As i ho deputy sheriff ia a Western court was ripping to secure the silence of two men who woio talking, one of them roso and said to tho judge — " May ib please your honor, it ia impossible foe gentlemen to converse if ihit imn ia allowed to mako such a noise. " In Golden Colorado, an editor wrote some advice to a newly-married friend and was foolich enough to print it. After his wife had looked over a proof of the ( "advice," tho editor felt compelled to to add this postscript — " Have your haic outoloso to tho skin."