SHE FELL-HE TUMBLED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2210, 3 February 1886, Page 2

SHE FELL-HE TUMBLED.

It was on a corner. On a public, ioy corner, As 1 approached it from one direction an angel approached it from the opposite one.

I mean an angel in female clothing- - 14 dollar hat—seal skin sacque—B dollar boots—and such a face and form I - As we were about to pass she'fell. - There was no bag* of filand'business about it, but she simply uttered' a little shriek—a very little oiie—tossed up her C right arm, and then gracefully settled- • down in a heap, with one foot and ankle 1 ' peeping out from under her dress A I'll be hanged! if it wasn't JthTPtooafc graceful thing in the books— V. sweetest, daintest fall over public, Quicker'n chain lightning I made up * my mind to marry her, I had fully " determined to marry her. I had fully determined nevor to marry a woman who slipped down like a bow-legged quadruped , ± and made herself an object of ridicule tft the public. 4 • Monthii passed. So did I.

My love never grew cold. ' She took occasion to fall again—-this time off a step-ladder in thetack yard as we trained a climbing r?se. . . Oracioua I but how beautiful I She did'nt go down with a swoosh and a lets junk, but descended like a bird—ilawly, gracefully, quietly, properly. ' After that 1 hastened the wedding day. had long ago. determined never to. marry one of thoaa women who kick the step-ladder, through the back fence as they take a tumble. • ;

We were spliced... My . happiness, kicked the beam at 2,000 pounds.Inside of a week Bhe ; threw a cAk at me. Next day she- went into » fit and knocked several puriels out of me v She tried to saw me in two with a case knife. She sought to explode a can of tomatoes, under my chin as I slept. She stole my watch and pawned it—she plundered my wallet—she placed a torpedo in my path, and she fled with a man who was selling patent stove blacking—three packasr for 25 cunts, warranted not to wise tW"r dust or spot the carpet, Let 'em fall (

I stand on very icy corners and wait and grin and anticipate. I cachinnate and chuoklo, lam heartless. Let 'om fall gracefully or otherwise. Let 'em descend like feathers, or with a burap whioh shakos the earth. ' Lot 'em scramble on alt-fours, mad and ohagrinsd, or lot'pm roraain in graceful pose until aiuft-hearted fool rushes up to extend a hand. ■' s lanrthere, but I an immovable, implacable, unrelenting.-FmPnts.