JUST ONE KISS.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 147, 7 July 1883, Page 243

JUST ONE KISS.

Beware of designing females! There are, feminine women going rampaging around, seeking whom they niiiy ln'trimoi'iaily lead captive and devour. A young Dissenting minister was neatly taken in by a demure-looking misjs the other fl-iT. To look at. -her, you would not suppose that butter would me lt. in her moiilh. Shed 'ing several very bi-g tc:>vs, she bogged him \ to wail, upon her at her residence in reference to ;j, nr.t-ter deeply, affecting her present, and future hn.yipi.iess. r| 'he rev. gentleman complied, when [iW bidy'reveaiedHhe fatal secret. She had conceived a deep and passionate love for the curate hiuiM'lf.' knew, she said, that her Jove was hopoiess— that he had vowed himself to a life of ,<celibucy. --that she would have to go down with 'greyluiirs to the grave; but there was one last, hndm whieft* lie might confer upon her, which

would soften the blow and console her in her deep sorrow and suffering. Would he give her one farewell kiss before they parted, for; ever ? He softened the blow — softened it,, twice. His was a compassionate, tender ; soul,..and he could not resist the soft pleadings .of, .beauty is distress. A. few days afterwards he received- a neat little parcel, tied with a piece of blue ribbon, and on , opening jt he found an instantaneous photograph 5 (cabinet size) of himself ,'in the.actj.qf kissing the young: lady, L Accompanying this/w^s a com-' munication, fi:om.,the fair., creature herself, informing him, t}}at; there wer«3i! eleven more copies, and that he, .might have, tie; loit,at £10"a-piece. Negotiations are proceeding. " ...,/;, .".',' 0' ' o. ' . ' ' ' ' * ■" „,■:.-.' ."i'".- .■ •• --' 4 -- r»- - ,;-;./■■■. '- !• ■ r ,, . .