Popping the Question.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 320, 28 November 1888, Page 5

Popping the Question.

AYu i:s- Adam asked sweet Mistress Eve His gentle wife to be, She prettily did sigh and blush And pulled a rosebud from a bush, And spake no word to he, • Leaving in doubt if she did grieve. Lie urged his suib with throbbing heait, And went down on his knee ; One bweeb, admiring glance she stole, While love went surging o'er her soul For the first time, you see, And broke the spell with sudden starb. He took her by the lily hand, Talking rapidly ; She tore the leaves from off the rose And cast them feebly at his toes, And stood there silently, Her foot upon the pebbly sand. ' An orphan, sir, indeed am T? She said in whispers low ; She knew she ought to see her ma ; But as she had none, then her pa Ought to take her in tow And fix things for them by and by. £ Of friends in here there is a deartbj He said, in accents glib : 1 1 have no sister, sure, or brother, Indeed, I think I am your mother, And you're my missing rib, Although I came from out the ...trbn. ' 1 Then, sir, I'll be your willing wife. He thanked her heartily. 'I'll mend, and make, and wash, and sew To others I'll a pattern show, And tend the progeny, And never gossip in my life. 5

The question in amateur athletic circle B in America is, whether the tim 0.. Schiffer* stein at St. Louis, 9 4-5, shall go down £3 recorded. The track was subsequently surveyed. The surveyors found the firsb' thirty yards uphill, the next seventy, dead level and a slight fall in the last part of the race. This shows that the performance swas , a bo?iajide one, and the, record must be-ae-cepted. Four watches were-helcl on the race, and each of .them registered 9 4-5 exactly. . „, , , '