A NEWLY-MARRIED COUPLE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1121, 12 August 1882, Page 2

A NEWLY-MARRIED COUPLE.

A YOUNG HUSBAND WHO COULD NOT BE TBIFLED WITH. A COUPLE left the train at the Union depot and walked up Jefferson avenue yesterday. She had long curls and a pink dress and a yellow sash, and he had a long collar sawing his ears off, a button-hole bouquet and a pair of new boots freshly greased and one size too small. They hadn’t walked two blocks when they came to a man sitting on a box in front of a store and as ho caught sight of them a grin crept over his face like molasses spreading out on a shingle. ’‘Grinning at us, I s'pose ?” queired the young man, as he came to a halt. “ Yes," frankly replied the sitter. “ Tickles you most to death to see us take hold of hands, don't it ?” “ It does " “ And you imagine you can see us feeding each other onoaramels, can’t you." “ I can.” ’’ And you shake all over at the way ! we gawp around and keep our mouths ■ open ?" "That's me." “ Well, this is me ' I'm not purty, i and I haven't been cultivated between the rows, nor hilled up nor fertilized. I ain’t what you call stall-fed, and the ; old man looks twenty per cent, worse than I do, but it won't take me over a minute to jam you seven foet into tho i ground! I told Lucy I was going to begin on the first man who looked , cross-eyed at us, and you are the ohap. > Prepare to he pulverised !” i

“ Beg pardon, but I didn't mean —” “Yes, you did! Lucy hold my hat while I mop him!” “ Say —hold on—say 1” He took up the middle of the street like a runaway horse, and the young man took after him, but it was no use. After a race of a block the man who grinned gained so fast that the other stopped short and went back to his girl and his hat. Stretching out his band to the innocent maiden, he remarked : ,‘Lucy, clasp on to that, and if you let go for the next two hours, even to wipe your nose, I’ll never call you by the sacred name of wife.”