HOW A CHICAGO GIRL FIXED HIM-

Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2403, 1 December 1877, Page 6

HOW A CHICAGO GIRL FIXED HIM-

" Will you do something to oblige me. shyly asked a ■beautiful young woman 01 » timid gentleman, whose acquaintance sne had just made at a small social gatneruio in West Adam-street the other evening. )f . " Anything that I can in honour, miss, he replied, blushing. , t. "Well," said she, "conic into the w+ parlour, where it is dark, and sit oaw sofa with me, and let me rest my heaa .» your shoulder, and you pretend to w»j* t in my ear-only don't blow, because tt» tickles and I can't laugh, for this new dMJ is very tight—and when anybody loots yo can draw your arm away—l forgot to w that I wanted you to put it round my w» —and I'll pretend to blush." . . "But, my gracious! honoured bum*. stammered the young man, after a* /, dividing 4 into 1574, and finding that wasn't leap year ; "my goodness !a* all these people—and I am alreaaj, aa o-ed—and your father must weign , " Hush, I know what I am up to, * plied the artless girl. "I am w&®*LZj.-, to that young man talking to tne »■* faced thing with somebody else sna" V-;;-,: there. I want to stir him "iH^-Sp him down to business—make him coro« r to his milk, that's all." ~ < y. een The young man said that a loadnaau lifted from his bosom, and aided her w. • best of his ability—so well, indee£' tw three-quarters of an hour the true MWJ 1 ■ got his girl into the library, demanriea -■• Explanation of her shameless .conduct, i softened by her tears, called Itself a t»ld asked if she could ever *xf™ *?*&&■ promised to behave better ™ future, how did the young girl re^» rVf® L^s?, man who helped her to this bappg Why, she never said a word, to i*l™^^ to say to her reconciled lover, could you have been so stupid as^ ha I could see anything to admire |" man mutton-headed clam as that t B > in our hours of ease !