LOVE'S REVENGE.

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 117, 9 December 1882, Page 194

LOVE'S REVENGE.

He is a salesman in a Tauranga store. That handsome, or thinks himself so, goes withotl ing. His too susceptible heart has been capt by one of the opposite sex, and to her! perpetually inditing loving epistles and insd amorous verse. When the divine afflatus des upon him, his soul soars above all things hub] to a paradise, which, unlike the Mahommeik! is tenanted by himself and but one houri| such times he cannot resist the inspiratid scribble, as fast as. hi 3 weary fingers willi him, pledges of everlasting fealty, and for them with flowers, poodle dogs, and other ail of price which his aesthetic taste teaches him be acceptable to " her." He had writtea (K these bulletins of devotion, when his day-df were rudely dispelled by the advent of a cusfe Muttering a hasty "damn," he obeyed then duty. But alas ! in the greenest grass there! a serpent. A villain, in the shape of afi employe and jealous rival, stealthily appro* He eagerly pounces upon the tender ef laughs a demoniacal laugh, and with the % eyed monster glinting from his orbs, ins! ravenous dash at the gum^bottle.

During the afternoon a crowd was cott around the door of a business house on the S6 apparently deriving considerable amusement! the perusal of a letter pasted thereon, v?!» young lady approached. As she read the If a steely-light stole into her cold, grey eyes ; drawing herself up to her full height, sheen! the store and asked for the proprietor. ? individual came, listened to her recital, and ! in a gentle voice said — " You know, boys w boys. I didn't see him do it ; but there he l speak for himself." The steely-light beosE intensified, that a magnetic needle neaf visibly affected as, gripping her umbrella if hand of iron, she strode across the ahop. then — . But I ■will draw a veil over whai lowed. The sacred communings of two pel] situated like my hero and heroine should B* exposed to the vulgar gaze, So, my innS reader, you must imagine the rest.