AN OLD FOX.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2394, 12 November 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN OLD FOX.

A swKf.L who has been paying devoted attention to a rich hamker’s daughter, interviewed her father on the subject. After a few preliminary remarks he said, — “ I love your daughter, sir, and want to marry her.*’ “All, is that *<•':” replied the father, looking at him sharply over his glass**. Tin not surprised at it. She’s a good girl.*’ “ Vos. sir ; and it was her goodness which won me from the first.”

“Ahem, yes. Tvo heard you had some very extravagant hahits, and some of them as bad as they were extravagant.”

“ Tve not been a saint sir, but when Tin married and brought under the tender influence <>f a good and loving woman, 1 shall reform. * “ I’m glad to bear that. It would be unpleasant for your wife if you did not. Are y*ui aware, sir, that when I give you my daughter I give you with her T-oOGO?”

“ I was not aware of that, sir, but it would make no difference to me. Pecuniary considerations do not enter into my calculations at all.” “Xo>’' “ Xo, sir; love is of far more importance. It is a wife, not a bank account, I am looking for. Money is trash, sir.”

“ Don’t give yourself away, young man ; don’t give yourself away. 1 raid when I gave you my daughter TM give you the money; but you see Tm n**t going to give you my daughter, an 1 that alters the aspect of affairs veiv miterially. <»o»d day. Call room! aftei y- uve been reformed about fifteen ve.irs/*