A SCHEMING MAIDEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 953, 1 August 1878, Page 3

A SCHEMING MAIDEN.

In Clinton, Illinois, there was a lovel.) maiden, say of thirty-five, who fell desperately m love with a rich young man, and to prove the disinterested rapture she felt for him, and the ardent nature of her gush, she hinted, as only a lady of thirtyfive, anxious to marry, can, that he was the finest man she ever came across, and could make any woman happy by the simple means of a preacher and a lice lse. But the rich young man didn't see it ; he didn't nibble, and m fact he stayed away from there m a most unproposing manner. But it was an enterprising maiden, aud so she weut through some five hundred novels m search of a good way to catch a rich young man witb a matrimonial lasso, for, as the couple m a novel always marry, it is sate to conclude that the courting must be good which results always m succets. Well, at last the fair reader came to the " Romance of a Poor Young Man," wherein the point is that tho P.Y.M., being locked iv a moonlit tower with a lady, jumps off the tower at the risk of his life, sooner than stay tip there and thus compromise the lady. " I have it," said the fair reader, closing the book and going to the bexton of a lonely Methodist Church which stood some miles m the country. Diplomatically besiegiug that sexton, she managed to wheedle him out of the key to the steeple, which was high,, had a spiral stairway inside and only one window. Then the rich, but cool young man aud the designing lady wore seeu one afternoon riding along that road, and slopping at the lonely church, to go up iv the steeple and view a tiue article of sunset. The couple climbed the stairs and stood at the single window admiring the lovely scene until the suu went down behuid tho