COURTING.
They sat out on the steps watching for the shower of meteors, and their hands were clasped and each was thinking a wish. There is a superstition that a wish wished while a shooting star is in sight is sure to come true. The} sat close to each oilier, for the night was cold, and when her mother called to her through the window and told her to come in or she would catch her death of cold, she rose and said she must go in, and she didn’t think there would be any shooting stars that night anyhow'. But,” she said, “ tell me your wish and I will tell you mine.” She knew he had wished that she might learn' to love him, and that she would voluntarilly promise never, never to go home from church with any follow but himself; but a shade of sadness stole over her classic features when he answered, “ I wished that you would abstain from eating onions ou the days that you know I am coining to s<2C you in the evening.’'
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 301, 6 March 1878, Page 4
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180COURTING. Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 301, 6 March 1878, Page 4
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