A WOMAN OF FEW WORDS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3772, 29 January 1881, Page 4

A WOMAN OF FEW WORDS.

We find in a Californian diary the following glorification of a quality we are not sure we should like. A man of few wordß is very well, but a woman of few words is a matter open to argument: " I encountered to-day in a ravine some three miles distant, among the gold washers, a woman from San Jose.' She was at work with b large wooden bowl by the side of the stream. I asked her how lodr she had been there, and how much gold she averaged a day. She replied, ' Three Weeks and an ounce." Her reply reminded me of an anecdote of the late Judge Blank, who. met a girl returning from market, and asked her ' How deep did you find the stream p and what'did you get for your butter ?' ''Up to the knees tfud .ninepence,' was the reply. 'Ah !' said the judge to himself; ' she is the 'girl for me: no words lost there;'. turned back, proposed, was accepted, and married the next week, and a more happy couple the conjugal bonds never united; the nuptial lamp never waned—its ray was steady and clear to the last. Ye who paddle off and on for seven years, and are perhaps captured at last, take a lesson of the judge, and know that 'up to the knees and ninepence ' is worth all the rose letters and melancholy xhjmes ever penned."

"What an ill-made dress Mrs has on," «aid one lady to another. "Yes; and that's the reason it fits her to well," , til the sneering reply.