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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 1 May 1883, Page 2

A buy paid his first visit to one ot the public sohools'the other day as a echolar, and as he came home at night hit mother inquired: " Well, Henry, how do you like going to echool \"" Oh," he replied, ; ; in an excited voice, '' I saw- fonr .boya licked, one girl got her ears pulled, and a big scholar burned his elbow on tho stove, I don't want to misa a day." • They were engaged to be married, and called each other by theirfint names, Tom and Fanny, and he wm telling her how he had always liked tho name of Fanny, and [ how it aouoded like mußio in his ear, "I ! like the name so well," he added as a tort of clincher to the argument, "that when sister Clara asked me to name her pet terrier, I at opce paljed it Fanny, aftpr you, dearest.' 1 '!{ dpn't tpjnk' |hat wag very nice," aud.the fair girl, edging away from hjin j-" now wpuld ypu like to have a dog named after ypu V " Why, that's, nothing 1" said Tom, airily; "half the cats in the country are named after! me," They don't Bpeak now. " Are you marrjed, my dear 1" .- asked an old gentleman of a pretty girl with whom he ohanced to.be sitting in a nilroad carriafje.' " Ho,V said she', but I've suei a fellow' for a Wach of promise," There is an lowa ''clergyman «ho charges for the performance of a roafrjgge cerempny according to the weight of It Q - parties—two cents a pound for,the bride* groom and fopr cents a pound for j..tpe bride. In that parish it is' not an' uhcommon% thing to hear a ypuogi man remark " No-darling, it cannot V'imma' diately'; you're too fat,"