OUR GIRL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1158, 25 September 1882, Page 2

OUR GIRL.

Question: Would Our Girl marry a good young Blacksmith P Answer: Good gracious, you ought to know better than to ask such a question. Q. : But we suppose for the time being that We do no: know any belter. Hence the question. A.: Well, now I come to think it over, there are certain conditions under which Our Girl might marry the young blacksmith, if he were rich and did not work at his trade, and hired a great many men to work for him, she might marry the young man, though she would wish he was not called a Uaekstaith,

Q.: But the young blacksmith is handsome and well educated. A. : But he shoes horses for a living. Q.: Well, is not that an honest way of getting a living? A.: Yes, it is honest but not elegant. Besides, he doesn’t have as mnch money as Our Girl wants. Q.: How much does Our Girl want ? A : Well, she might manage to get along on 10.000 dols. a year. She might have a residence in a fashionable quarter, a carriage, dresses, diamonds, servants, Saratoga, and a cottage in the 'eountry. The young blacksmith couldn’t furniah all that on 3dols. per day. Q.: But suppose the young blacksmith could forge a few notes now and then, and pass them without anybody finding ir ont ? A.: Well, if he forged very carefully, and in a gentlemanly manner, and called it by some less ugly name, and she was quite sure he was doing no more nor less than were others around him, she might take his case under consideration. It’s something like hi- being a big boss blacksmith, and being known as a great iron manufacturer. Q.: But suppose he had been a blacksmith like Campanini and had turned into a great singer? A.: Oh, then she’d marry him, money or no money, and be very proud that he had been a blacksmith.—American Paper.