A SURPRISE.
The Danbury News has tho following : —The habit of hanging mackerel on a nail near the door to drip, broke up a match in Essex street, on Wednesday night. The couple got home late in the evening, and going round the back of the house so as not to disturb the folks, they sat down on a step to think. During . the process sho leaned her head in a new spring hat, against the house, and became absorbed in in the stars and other improvements while he tenderly eyed his boots. Half.an hour was spent in this profitable occupation, when the young man felt something trickle down his neck. " Don't weep,
Julia," he softly murmured. " I flint," said she surprised. He looked up, and his eyes rested on a noozy substance at the back of her head. " What's that on the back of your hat ? " ho cried. She jumped up at this interrogation, and instinctively placed her hand on the back of her head, drew it away again full of an unpleasantly flavored slime. With a shriek of rage and passion, the infuriated girl tore the mackerel from the nail and trampled it beneath her feet,-while she snatched off her hat and tore it in shreds with her livid fingers. The horror-stricken young man, not knowing what else to do, jumped the first fence and disappeared, and hasn't been seen since by the unfortunate gild.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1210, 11 September 1874, Page 3
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237A SURPRISE. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1210, 11 September 1874, Page 3
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