WITH HIS FACE TO THE FOE.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4839, 12 July 1884, Page 4

WITH HIS FACE TO THE FOE.

A young woman went to the station to meet her father. As. the train came in she saw a."middle-aged man who represented her parental relative, and she rushed into^his arms, huddled down on his bosom, kissed him on the mouth, the - ear, the. chin,.' and -all orar his patent celluloid. It was not her father, but a

middle-aged trareller for a tobacco house.' He took a long breath, and looked p ■< around at some other grarellers and r .winked, as much as to say, " Oh, I'm .' auch a masher l"< \ ' - - Of course the 'scene could not last for eyer, though he wished it could. After a spasmodic hug, she looked up in his face and shrieked, " You are not my pa!" He said she was right. She asked his pardon, and be told her not to mention it. "We public .men should always hold ourselves in readiness to support them ■ who need it." «

■ She smiled a sweet, sad, blushing smile, '- and went out into, the wide world, while the, traveller .walked to the hotel with the others. They asked him if it didn't make him feel ashamed to 'have such a 'mistake

made, and he said no, it was right. He said of course it might look queer, but those things occurred very often with him, as they would occur with any fine looking pan. Besides, the girl probably enjoyed it. They then asked him why he did not wear his diamond breast pin on such try* ing occasions. He looked at his shirt* front and it was gone. While he had been allowing her to play the daughter she had borrowed bis pin. He fainted, and when they brought him to, he said: 1 "Tell my family that I died)with my face to the foe.'*^