"Charles," said a sharp-voiced woman to her husband in a railway carriage, "do you know that you and I onee had a romance in a railway carriage?" "Never heard of it,"'replied Charles, in a subdued tone. "I thought you hadn't. But don't voti remember it was that pair of slippers I presented to you the Christmas before we were married that led to our union V You remember how nicely they fitted, don't you? Well, Clialies, one day, when we were going to a picnic, you had your feet up on a seat, and when you weren't looking T took your measure. But for that pair of slippers I don't believe we'd ever have been married." A young unmarried man sitting by imi mediately took down his feet from the seat.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 318, 3 June 1911, Page 10
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131Page 10 Advertisements Column 4 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 318, 3 June 1911, Page 10
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