NOT HIS FAULT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 290, 6 July 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

NOT HIS FAULT.

They wore quite newly-married, and she was much too young to understand that vt man takes very little interest in shopping. She had left his side to look in a window at some now spring fa.sli.ions ■which were "just lovely :*' When she returned she took the flrm which she thought was her husband's. •'You don't .wen look at anything I want von to see. You no longer love me. You haven't kissed me for a whole day." ; 'I r..ni sorry, madam, hut that is not my fault," said the gentleman, looking down into her face. She looked at him and gasped. She had taken the arm of the wrong man. STANDING ALONE. A quite, patient little man had hoon pushed ahout and trodden on by the other passengers on n crowded tranicar. For a ion/.; time he suffered in sileirv. Then, in a meek voice, he addressed an awkward youth standing next to him. 'Young man," he said, " I hope you will not think me rud", but may 1 ask your age '? The youth stared ait 'him For a moment, and replied: "Eighteen." •Eighteen," said the little mm, softly. ''Now, really, young man, don't you think that you ate old enough to stand on your own feet'r" A hard-hearted old Scot had grown ri ii in the whisky trade. Alt!'i' !m' had grown rich the old man built himself a lini< house— :i mansion on a hill with a park around it. with conservatories, stables and- out-build-ings'—in a word, a nala" •. One day the old .man rude in Uie omnibus past hi-, liohm*. A temperance man pointed no at the edifice and said, with .', smier : "It was .whisky built that, wasn't it 0 " ' Na, na, man, the water," was the r.-piy. .ilr- Uryce r-.milingi : "I've never cauirht vim kiting the policeman on Ihe'beat vet, Hridget." " No, ma'am, lie's my husband."