Humour

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 43, 20 January 1894, Page 10

Humour

PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. [A contemporary suggests that no promise of marriage should he valid unless made in wri ting, and confirmed hy a sixpenny stamp.J Miss Brown” his voice trembled and faltered — “ I’ve something important to say. Save you noticed how much I am altered. And how I am fading away ?” Her heart gave a jump like a rocket, As shyly she turned down the lamp : Her hand disappeared in her pocket In search of a sixpenny stamp. you’ve read and replied to my letters ; My feelings you must have divined ; “ Don’t try to unloosen my fetters, Or say that you’ve altered your mind!” Poor follow ! He’s dreadfully smitten Such words no false lover could vamp, J3ut the words would look better if written (She murmured) and scaled hy a stamp!” ■“Miss Brown!” —the youth stammered and stuttered, “Miss Brown —cr —I said that before.” ““ It’s not in my pocket,” she muttered. And looked for the stamp on the iloor. Your eyes and your beauty so regal Hold ray heart, as it were, in a clamp. -« Six penny ones—would that be legal” She sighed— 1 ' for a sixpenny stamp ?” “ Miss Brown, you don’t answer me—Bella !” Cried he, “my heart’s given to yon.” It’s not here,”’ and she shook her umbrella. “ Here it is, I declare, in my shoe! Hero it is, and as words are like vapour, This stamp may I ask you to damp ; Then put your proposal on paper; It’ll keep—with a sixpenny stamp!” ——Pall Mall Budget.