A BAD BARGAIN.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 164, 23 September 1892, Page 8

A BAD BARGAIN.

A Detrioter, who dresses well and has a reasonable share of good looks, had occasion to make a trip to the - country, and one night he found himself «r n fammouse at which a-party •'whs id come off. He -was invited to partie:i :L- the fbstivites, and after he .. • • i* old. farmer took him roundthe corner em-i Louse, and said : ‘ The young folks are mighty fond of a game with kissing in it. They’ll get up something, and fix to make y.--u k-L - handsomest gal-m the room, ‘ Well, I’ll kiss her!’ was to.- ,■ ■ reply. ‘ p ‘ Yes j but hold on a iitiie, continued the old man. ‘ There’s my gal Emma, We .. . , 7 a s party tts any of ’em : but thmfc s.u.e» . i ~ v

. . ! .. ci sniff at her, Y u - it, and her hair is a trill-' i;i \, n»v, I want you to kiss in for the handsomest gal in the room. It’ll do the oh woman good, do Em good, and kinder set these ’ere sniffers back a little. I don’t ask you to kiss her for nothing ; but. if you’ll do it, I'll throw fifteen cents off your bill in the morning. What d’ye say ?’ - The young mun said he’d do it ; and the father continued ; ‘ That’s the checker. Don’t have any make-believe about it, but kiss her right pop out, so that we may all hear the smack!’ The game was played, the Detrioter was ‘fixed,’ and he kissed ‘ Em’ like the pop of a pistol. He felt all the happier for it that night, seeing how greatly the old woman was pleased. But next afternoon, as he jogged along, he had to run the gauntlet of a score of farmers’ sons waiting in fence corners to lick him because he passed their ‘ gals ’ for 4 Em He was struck by thirteen stones, six clubs, and about a bushel of potatoes before he got out of that neighbourhood ; and when he came to figure up, he realized that fifteen cents was no inducement at all,.