A PLEASANT SITUATION.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5073, 18 April 1885, Page 2

A PLEASANT SITUATION.

Our young friend Parker went around the other evening to visit the two Misses Smith. After conversing with them for a While, Miss Susan excused herself for a few moments and went upstairs. Presently Parker thought he heard her coining, and slipping behind the door, he suggested that the other Miss Smith should tell Miss Susan that he had goue.'

It wasn't Miss Susan—it was old Mr Smith in his slippers, As ho entered he looked round, and said to bis daughter, " Ah, ha ! So Parker's gone, has he ? Good riddance ! I was just comin' down to keep my eye on him. I hope he hasn't been proposin' to you, Mary Jane. I don't want any such red-headed idiot as that foohV round here. He hasn't got the sonce of a turnip, or money enough to buysoap. He gets none of my daughters. I'll shake the life out of him if I catch him here again, mind mo."

-Just ns he concluded, Susan came down, and not perceiving' Parker, she said—>

" Thank goodness, he's gone 1 That man is enough to provoke a saint. I was awfully afraid he was going tq stay and spend the evening. Mary Jane, I hope you didn't ask him to come again." Then Parker didn't know whether to stay there or to bolr, while Mary Jane looked as if she would like to drop into the cellar.

, But Parker, finally walked out of the rooaa, seized ills hat, shot down the front steps, and went home meditating upon the emptiness of humsn happiness and the uncertainty of Smiths. He has not called since, and hia ltfe thus far has been unmolested by the head of the Smith family* ' ,