A Lover's Device. — A young sailor had been courting a young girl at a house not a hundred miles from the Ulverstan canal, when some quarrel cnßued between the lovers, and he threatened to drown himself. No sooner baid than done, appa rently. He sprang into the canal and disappeared to tho great terror of the girl, who ut once created an alarm. Several members of the police force, assisted by sympathising bystanders, dragged the canal for a considerable time, but without effect. The truth was, that the disconsolate lover was a capital swimmer and diver, and contrived, through the darkness of the night, to get home unobserved, where he was found uext morning, comfortably ensconced between the blankets. Kumor ea.ys that the heart of tho lair one is softened, and that the course of trae love is likely to run 6mooth keneelbrtb. — Cumberland Pacquet.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 13, 23 December 1862, Page 2
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145Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 13, 23 December 1862, Page 2
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