A LEAP-YEAR PROPOSAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4148, 25 June 1892, Page 3

A LEAP-YEAR PROPOSAL.

The following expressive and poetical communication has bi-en received by a young man in Groytowri. As will iio seen on perusal, the writer hue not signed her name, but it ia lo k hoped that this may meet her eye, so that she will learn the fato of her bumble proposal.' Greytuivn, Leap Year-Thursday. Darling Harry, Being leap yoar, therefore I propose: I have a heart you know thats true; Long havo 1 kept my heart for you. The ring is round, it has no end | To marry you 1 do intend, Though many fields and streets divide us, And no meetings be our lot; 1 request one little favour,—that is, F»rget me not, If this offer ymi refuse, A pair of glovos is what I choose . Oh I Yon little doar, 1 hope you know who I am, I would put my namo, only 1 am frightened of «refusal, and vt course you would show it to your friends. Hoping you will accept mo, and recogiitao tho writer.—l romam, your loving Admirbr. P.S, Oh I Love, do answer by return of mail, as 1' um so anxious. The fortunate recipient has also given us bis answer for publication, but we rally cannot afford it space, except on " the usual terms." Suffice it now to say that he pleads "a previous engagement," and is invulnerable,