Cosaohisa Pbomisb, — The following naive lover's promise was offered as an irresistable temptation to a filially-given inamorata : "I like you," sighed the girl to her suitor, " but I can't leave home. lam a widow's only darling ; no husband can equal my parent in kindness." '• She is kind," pleaded the wooer, " but be my wife — we will lire together, and see if I don't leat yottr mother !"
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Southland Times, Issue 866, 16 December 1867, Page 2
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66Untitled Southland Times, Issue 866, 16 December 1867, Page 2
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