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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 372, 29 May 1889, Page 1

A COMMONPLACE WOOING.

O, she was romantic, And rather pedantic, And full of historical lotv. And fond of expressing Her views, and confessing 1 Her love for the customs of yore. This billing and cooing, And commonplace wooing, Was not very much to her mind, And the troubadour fashion' Of telling Love's passion Was far moi c discreet and refined. And she had' a notion A lovers devotion His mistress as sovereign- should crown ;, And she would look queenly, And smile most serenely When he kissed — the hem of her gown. Such a chivalrous lover 'Twas hard to discover Except in the volumes she read, And 30 the years found her With wise ones around her, But none came to. woo or to wed. Books are well in their places, But a sight of dear faces With eyes lit with love for ourselves,. Can give us more pleasure Than any rich treasure We find on the library shelves. For Macaulay, Plato, And Virgil, and Cato, Though .vorthy to know and: admire, By any endeavour Can- never — no, never; Be all that our hearts may desire. And when in plain fashion. One whispers his passion, And asks her his future- to. biesa, This erudite maiden,. With blushes ail laden, Was not at all loath to say " "Xes."' For billing and cooing, And commonplace wooing, Though not to her fancy, she saidv (So killed in black letter !) Were so very much better Than being un wooed and unwed.

Have the Courige — To tell a man why you will not lend him your money ; to wear your old garments till j ou can pay for new ones ; to pass tlio- bottle witnont fillintr your glass ; to speak your mind when it is necessary that you should! do, so, and' to hold your tongue when it is better that you should be silent j to discharge a debt while you have themaopy in your pocket; to provide an entertainment for your friends within your means, not beyond ; to own that you are poor if you are so j and to obey your Maker, at the- risk of being ridiculed by man. Boston Young Lady — Don't say 'vase' Polly ; the word is pronounced ,vawze v * Country Cousin — Certainly dear. Well, as I was saying, I went down town to buy some lawzoto trim my hat, and I walked at buch a pawze that people must have thought I was in for a rawze, and when I got to tho store my fawze was as red as fire. Do coi* rect me when I say anything countrified won't you, Anastawzia. Partners : Powers of Amongst Thempelves : — A partner i,n an undertaking orbu^iness is, by virtue of that relatiot, constituted a general agent for his copartners in all matteis affecting tho paitnership, and he has all the authority necessary for carrying on operations and all such as are usually exercised by the partnership. An} 7 restiiction imposed by agreement among partners to prevent certain things being clone by one without the express sanction of the others, though binding as between the partners themselves does not limit their authoiity, as to persons outside tho partnership, unless the latter are aware of the restrictions imposed. Such a restiiction is. very common in partnership agreements, but the mischief" which it contemplates preventing is not thereby stopped, owing to strangers dealing with the partners and having no knowledge of it. — Mercantile and Bankruptcy Gazette. During the Iri?h rebellion an Irish paper published this item : ' A man named Mo Carthy was run over by a passenger train and killed on Wednesday. He was injured in a similar way two yeais ago*' Build a worm fence round a winter supply of summer weather ;. skim tht> clouds from the sky with a teaspoon ; oateu a thunderbolt in a bladder ; break a lmrrU cane to harness ; ground sluice an earthquake ; tattoo an avalanche ; fix a clout upon the crater of an active volcano ; hang out the ocean on a grape-vine to dry j but never, sir — ne/er for a moment delude yourself with the idea that YOU CAN DO BUSINESS without advertising, ' Say,' said Berkoy to his wife yesterday it dinner, 'you didn't say anything to any one about what 1 was telling you night before last, did you ? That's a secret,' k A secret? Why 1 didn't know it was a secret she replied kind of regretfully. 'Well, did you tell it ? I want to know.' ' Why, no;, I never thought ot it since* I didn't kn'owit was a secret It has been calculated that if 32,000,000persons were to cla.'-p hands they would re i eh around the » lobe.

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