JUST ONE LITTLE KISS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1866, 16 December 1884, Page 2

JUST ONE LITTLE KISS.

The following is given as a true storyyand the little comedy was played in the night "Pullman"-bound from Scotland to London. The car was as the ladies'compartments was .occupied, the next berths to it l-fere partitioned off with curtains from -thtrrest of the ear tor a married couple, whp bad taken their places late. About ajrhour after everyone had retired, and when everything; was quiet, a low ,Vojce was heard from behind the curtain : " Sophie, Sophie, give rae a kiss, and say you forgive me." Still no response. At last the voice of the evidently penitent husband (he was quiet regardless of the tittering and smothered laughter from the neighboring bertha) pleaded again: " Sophie, Sophie, juat one kiss —one, and say you forgive me." Unable to stand this sort of thing any longer, a choleric old Indian officer popped hia head out of his berth and shouted: " Sophie, for Heaven's sake give him a ksss, and let us get some, sleep 1" Even after that the troubles of the poor husband were not over, A voice, said sharply, amid the general laughter -of .the- people in the car, ■•'. There! ;I told you bo.' ■ Now, •you Bee what you have done. I kriW everyone could heat-you.