SHE WAS WILLING.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 165, 14 April 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

SHE WAS WILLING.

They had 1 been "walking out" for some months, but as yet he had not. been able to muster up courage to asx for a kiss. One night, however, as they were walking in the country, lie gathered himself together and .said : "''Mary, Ah'm going to kiss yor at every stile 'twixt 'ere an' home." Mary, who was half-way over the stile, looked down on him with blushing face. "Come on, then," she said, and defended from the .stile again and l>egan walking back in the direction from which they had come. "Wot are yer going that way for?" queried he, mounting the stile again in pursuit of his prize. "It's a lot farther 'ome that way." "Ah know that, lad," she said, softly, over her shoulc'lcr, her face like a blushing rose; "but there's a sigh, more stiles." MUSCULAR CH HI ST IA XITY. The following story is told by Alfred Capper in his Reminiscences (George Allen and Unwin). Dr. Knight-Bruce, Bishop of Mashonaland, had ueen preaching 011 the famous and often much misunderstood text which bids us turn the other check to him who has ; iu it ten us on the face. "During the course of the following week lie met a bullying Boor farmer, who grosslv insulted him, and then Mnacked him on the fac«. 'Now,' cried he to the Bishop, 'turn the other cheek and I'll smack that, too.' The Bishop meekly did as he was told, and the Beer caught him an awful crack < n tl.at side of his face also. Then lie turned to go away. " 'Wait a minute, quietly remarked the little Bishop, taking of! his coat as he spoke and hanging it up on the bough of a neighbouring tree. 'There, now, that's the Bishop; lie's dene bis euty. Here's Knight-Bruce >n hi" shirt-sleeve*: come 011.' "HaH an hour later they took tb.Uoor home 011 a wheelbarrow.