CAPTURING a School maam.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 272, 13 June 1888, Page 3

CAPTURING a School maam .

'Yi.s,' said the young man, a^ he threw himself at the loci of the pietty school teacher, ' I lo\< 1 jou, ami would go to the world's end tor \un.' ' ou could not go to the end of the world for me, .lames. The world, an it i.» called, is round, like, a ball, fliyhfcly flattened at tho pole-% Ono of the tii^t lemons in elementary geography isdevoted to the t-hape ot the globe. You must ha\o studied it when you were u boy.' ' Ot eour&c 1 did, but ' And it i.s no longer ;i thcoi\. Circum navigators have established the laet.' • [ know, but what 1 meant was that I would do anything to please \ou. Ah, Minerva, it you only knew (he aching void ' ' There is no such thing as a void, .iatnee. Kature abhors a vacuum : but admitting that there could be such a tiling, how could tho void jou ,s[):ak of be a \oid if theie an ache in it '! I 'L meant to say that mj life will be! lonely without >ou, that, you are my daily thought and my nightly dieam. 1 would tjo anywhere to be with you. It \ou wore in Australia or at the North Pole I would fly to you. 1 ' ' 1 fly! It will be another cent in y before nien can lly. Uven w r hen the law .s of gravitation are rtuccehbfully overcome, theie will still remain, .sa\. j . a lato scicntitic aubhority, the diilleulty ot main tain ing a balance-- -' ' Well, al all event*,' exclaimed the youth, ' Wo got a piotty fair balance in the savings-bank, and I want you to be my wifO 1 . There !' J ' Well, Jame*, hiiicc you put it in that I light I'll '