CARDS AND CARDS.
This anecdote qf guileless innocence on the part of a paw young Parisian'« ggiug the rounds, Hjs tnistress proposed to devote the afternoon to galls, and in steppinu into Her carriage remembered that she had left her card-oase on the table, so she instructed her servant to fetch the necessary implements 1 of her expedition, and told him that she would inform him where to leave the substitutes for a personal inJtervievr. He fetched the cards and W»8 odered to 1W two herrf, one /" , hers, and tlirfje. j)eap., fys/fy 'jperfliijj! \ I Jiouipß/ks etiquette demapded. The man aeaidoqsly obeyed, till at here" was the ord«r givon, and he paused "I can't madame 1" he answerod. She looked intenogativel; at him. "There are only two left," he oontiued glancing at the remnant, "The ace of diamonds and the king of dubs,"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 833, 30 July 1881, Page 2
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142CARDS AND CARDS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 833, 30 July 1881, Page 2
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