TWO WAYS OF IT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1724, 1 July 1884, Page 2

TWO WAYS OF IT.

A young farmor in the West thus describes his battle, and final viotory, in a fair fight for ft kiss from his sweethoart :- ' Ah, now. Sarah dear! give mo a kissjust one—and have done with it,'—' I won't! so there now.'

' Then I'll have to take it, whether or no.' —' Take it if jou dare,' So at it wo went, rough and tumble. An awful destruction of starch now commenced. The bow of my cravat was squat up Agialf of nn time. At the next bout smasSßent shirt collar, and at the same time some head-fastenings, gave way and down came Sally b hair like a flood in a mill dam broke loose, carrying away half-a-dozen hair vm.L One plunge of Sally's elbow, and nil blooming bosom ruffles wilted to the consist tenoy and form of aa alter dinner napkin. But she had no time to boast. Soon htr neck tackling began to shiver, parted at the threat, and away went a string of white beads, ■ soampenng and running races every way you could think of about the floor, She fought fair, however, I must admit, and when she could fight no longer, for thu want of breath, she yielded handsomely; her arms fell down by her sidethose long, rosy, arms; her hair hung back over the chair; her eyes were half shut, as if she wero not able to hold them open a minute longer; and there lay a little plump mouth all in the air | My goodness I Did you ever see a hawk pounce on a robin ? or a bee on a clover top ? Even so I settled; and when she camo to, and threw up those arms, and seized me around the neck, and deolaied she would choke me if I ever did so again, and had a great mind to do it now I just nn the risk over again, and the more she choked me the more I liked it; and now she put hor arms round my wok, and puts her own lips in the way of mine every day, and calls me her John, ami don't seem to make any fuss about it at all. Thit was a vory sensible girl, and she makes mo a good wife too, as I am. not ashamed to say any. where, Quite different, but not loss natisfcjdk, was the first osculatory experieuSßKft' Dominie Brown. He had reached cticl matural age of five and forty without ever*" having taken part in this pleasant exceroise. Oue of his deacons had a very r charming daughter, and for a year or two the Dominie had found it very, pleasant to call upon her three or four times t, week. In faot, all the neighbors said he was' courting' her; and very likely he was, though .he had not the remotest suspicion of it hinnelf, One Monday evening he was sitting, aa usual, by her side, when a sudden idea, popped into his head.

' Mibs Mary,' said he,«l've known you a '■•• Ion? time, and I nevor thought of such & ; thing before; but now I would like you to give me a kiss. Will you?" 'Well, Mr Brown,' replied Bhe, arching her lips in a tempting way, 'jlf you think it would not be wrong, I have no objection.' ' Let ub ask a blessing first" said the fcood •:' : man closing his eyes and folding, his bands... ■ 1 For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make ub thankful,' the chaste salute was then given and warmly returned. £. ' Oh, Mary that was good!' cried the Dominie, electrified by the new sensation- • ' Let us have another and' then return our thinks,' • Mary did not refuse; and when the oper-.,: ation had been repeated the Dwinie J. ej aoulated in a transport of joy- 4gkjL ' For the creaturo comforts which now enjoyed the Lord be praised, and my-- " they be sanctified to our temporal and our.eternal good,' History aaya that the' ferment petition of -the bonost Dominie was duly answered; for in less than a month Mary.beoame Mis Browa-Harper,