MIXED MISSIVES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 168, 25 April 1916, Page 4

MIXED MISSIVES.

A young lady presented her intended with a beautiful worked of slippers, and he acknowledged the present by sending her his picture encased in a handsome frame. He wrote a note to sen! with it, and at the same time replied angrily to an oft-repeated dun for an unpaid suit of clothes. He engaged a boy to deliver the package and notes. The young lady received a note ,in her adored one's handwriting, and flew to her room to devour its contents. She opened the missive with eager fingers, and read:

"I am getting tired of your everlasting attentions. The suit is about worn out already. It never amounted to much, anyway. Please go to thunder!"

And the tailor was struck utterly dumb when he opened a parcel and discovered a portrait of his deliquent customer, with a note that said:—

"When you gaze upon my features, think how much I owe you." When the unfortunate young man called that evening to receive the happy acknowledgement of his sweetheart he was very quickly shown off the doorstep by the youug lady's father. y