NOT A PURCHASER.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 51, 17 March 1894, Page 3

NOT A PURCHASER.

He was sitting on the platform at the railway station, in a deep studjg while two men stood near him watching. He had sat thus for ten minutes, when a bustling individual swooped down on him. “You are looking sad this morning,” he said gibly. The sitter lifted his face wearily, but said nothing. “I’ve got something here that is just the thing you want,” continued the canvasser. “ It’s a little volume, price only one . shilling, on ‘ Dove Courtship, and Marriage.’ It explains bow maidens may become happy wives, and bachelors happy husbands in a brief space of time. Also contains brief directions for declaring intentions, accepting vows, and retaining affections, both before and after marriage.” The man on the seat shook his head sadly. “ It also,” went on the canvasser, includes a treatise on the etiquette of marriage, describing the invitations, the dresses, the ceremony, and the proper behaviour of the bride and the groom. It also tells plainly how to begin courting, the way to get over bashfulness, the way to write a loveletter, the way to easily win a girl’s consent, the way to. pop the question, the way to accept or decline an offer, the way to make yourself agreeable

during an and the way you should act and the things you should do at the wedding. This is the sort of hook that has long been wanted. It speaks in plain honest words ”

The man on the seat spoke : “ I’m very sorry,” he said, in earnest tones, “that I must decline to purchase your book, but i-eally I have no use for it at present, as'l am on my way to prison to serve a two-years’ sentence for bigamy. If you will call round ”