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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2358, 20 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

After a consultation, a lawyer and his client emerged from the office of tho former. “ Do you always look your office when you go out? ” asked the.client, “ Yes’ of course, 1 answered the lawyer. “I don’t want any rascal to get into my office bsfore I return.’ Little Paul is greedy, and his mother scolds him. “ Don’t you see how naughty it is to be greedy ? Now say,‘lt is very wrong to bo greedy.” “ Oh, yes, mamma ! 'lt is very wrong to be greedy’—but then it is so nice ! ” They were celebrating their silver wedding, and of course tho couple were very happy and very affectionate. “Yes,” said the husband, “ this is the only woman I over loved. I shall never forget tho first time I over proposed to her.” “How.did you do it?” burst out a young man who had boon squeezing a nretty girl’s hand in, tho corner. They all laughed and he blushed ; hut the girl carried it off bravely. “ Well I remember as well as if it were yesterday. It was way back in Maine. Wo had been out on a picnic, and she and I bad got wandering alone. Don't yon remember, my dear?” Tho wife nodded and smiled. “We sat on the trunk of an old tree. Yon haven't forgotten, love, have you?” The, wife nodded again. “She began writing in the dust with the point of her parasol. You recall it, sweet, don’t you?” Tho wife nodded again. “She wrote her name, ‘ Minnie,’ and I said let mo put the other name to it; and I took the parasol and wrote my name—Smith—after it.’ “How lovely!” broke out a little maid who was beaming in a suspicious way on a tall chap with a blonde moustache. “And she took back tho parasol and wrote below it, ‘No ; I won’t.’ And wo went liome. You remember it, darling—l see yon do.” Then ho kissed her, and the company murmured sentimentally, “ Wasn t it pretty?” Tho guests had all departed, ami the happy couple were left alone “Wasn't it nice, Minnie, to ace all nnr friends around ns so happy?” “Yes, it was. But, John, that reminiscence 1” “Ah, it seems as if it had been only yesterday.” “ Yea, dear ; there are only three things you’re wrong about in that story." “Wrong? Oh, no ! ” “John, I’m sorry yon told that story, because I never went to a picnic with yon before wo were married ; I was never in Maine in my life, and f never refused you.” “My darling. yon must be wrong!” "I’m not wrong, .Ur Smith. I have an excellent memory, and although wo have been married twenty - yam, I’d like to know who that , ..hie was, You never told me amit her before,"