SHE DIDN’T.

Temuka Leader, Issue 263, 22 May 1880, Page 2

SHE DIDN’T.

It was plain enough to all the other passenger! on the ferry boat that the two were in love and engaged, yet the girl seemed to doubt his fervour just a little Therefore, as the boat reached mid-stream she leaned over, and tenderly said—- “ Johnny, 1 am going to test your love. I am goi. g to jump overboard, and if jou.Y’" really love me, 1 know you’ll jump after me' and save me” “Yes, I’ll jump after you,” he slowly replied, “hut—but —” “ But what, Johnnie ?” “ But if I were you, I’d take off my shoos , first Just the minute they haul yon out of the water every woman in this crowd will rush to see whether you wear No 4 or No s’s, and if your in your stocking feet they cannot get tl e size” The girl drew her feet under the chair, and did not regain her old composure until the boy came along with peanuts.

YAEIETIES The cloudy weather melts at length into„ beauties, and the brightest smiles of the are born of its tears ! Eeas m can tell how Jove affects us, butcannot tell what love is ! Whatever Midas touched was turned into , gold In these days, touch a man with gold and lie will turn into anything! Practised pickpockets and philosophers take things very easy! Perhaps as ’a general rule, complete igno- ■ ranee is better than ill-digested erudition 1 . . • Some bacheloi b join the army because they . war, and some married men because they like , , peace There is this paradox in fear—he is mast. - likely to inspire it in others who lias none , himself! Never play cards with the ladies for money —most of the dear creatures have very winning ways ! . . . * A ood cook rises to the dignity of an artist He may fairly rank with the .chemists, : if not with the physicians! 5j “ I never ■come, late to a friend’s sinner, says BoiLau, “ for 1 have observed that when a company is waiting for a man, they make, use of that time to load him with abuse!” Love can excuse anything except meanness, but meanness kills love, and cripples even natural affection! . . Scurrility is the corruption of wit,"as knavery is of wisdom. _ . Perhaps men are the most imitative animals in the world of Nature Only one ass spoke like a man, but hundreds of men daily talk like asses . “ Why, my dear, Sic, are always gazing at the sunsets?” “Just because they are the only golden prospects I have ever before me - So long as men are imprudent in their diet and their business, doctors and lawyers will ride in carriages . . Probably few women actually whip them huebands, but a great many get them wnipped