A LOVELY BURDEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1058, 5 April 1879, Page 3

A LOVELY BURDEN.

Our lady readers will be shocked to learn there lives a man with a goul so dead as to glory in having extracted irom a hundred and fortythree engaged lovers how their sweethearts behaved when put to the momentous question. A hundred find, forty stoutly maintained that lb.o hundred and forty single ladi.qs,

involved had not said a single word, I each and all significantly remarking, ' Actions speak louder than words.' j Two of the remaining gentlemen asseverated that when they proposed, the 'bewitching maidens respectively murmured : — 'Oh, John ! you don't mean it ! This is too much happiness : too much I I never thought you loved me! It's ves, yes; I'\e loved you, oh, so long, and now to. be. so happy, so blest !' These young men both confessed 1 they would rather the young ladies had not been so talkative about the matter just at that time. r lhe last of the 14:3 happy lovers said he had not gone through more than a quarter of a very carefully prepared proposition before the girl — a blonde, weighing some 1701bs.— arose, threw herself heavily on his lap, vigorously wound her arms round his neck, and cried — * You bet I'll have you, Henry ! I've been waiting to hear you say that for six months. Why didn't you say it long ago you stupid old man ? There! (A kiss.) You're mine! (Another kiss.) All mine. (Two kisses.) And nobody else will get you! (Accompaniment ad libitum). And see here ; if ever you go L.ack upon me, and won't marry me, I'll make it unhealthy for you, you bet ! I'm none of your soft, Spring-chicken-hearted girls,' His confession ended, the engaged one inquired — ' Don't you think for the occasion she was rather boisterous ?' and was answered — * Rather so ; but for your own sake, don't go back on her !' — Exchange.