AFRAID OF BEING KISSED.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1162, 29 September 1882, Page 2

AFRAID OF BEING KISSED.

A man was walking along one road, and a woman along anol her. The roads finally uniled and the man and woman reaching the junction at the same time, walked from there together. The man was carrying a large iron kettle on his back ; in one hand he held by the legs a live chicken, in the other a cane ; and he was leading a goat. Just as they were coming to a deep ravine the woman said to the man, “I am afraid to go through that ravine with you : it is a lonely place, and you might overpower me and kiss me by force” : “If you were afraid of that,” said the man, “you should'nt have walked with me at all : how can I overpower you and kiss you by force when 1 have this great kettle on my back, a cane in one hand, and a live chicken in the other, and am leading this goat ? I might as well be tied hand and foot.” “Yes,” replied the woman, “ but if you stick your cane into the ground, and tie the goat to it, and turn the kettle bottom side up, and put the chicken under it, then you might wickedly kiss me in spite of my resistances.” “Success to thine ingenuity, () woman said the man rejoicing to himself. "I should never have thought of this expedient.” And when they came to the ravine, he stuck his cane into the ground, and tied the goat to it, gave the chicken to the i woman saying, “ Hold it while 1 cut some grass for the goat.” And then lowering the kettle from his shoulders ; imprisoned the fowl under it, and wickedly kissed as she was afraid he i would.