Courtship Under Difficulties.

Auckland Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3704, 24 June 1882, Page 4 (Supplement)

Courtship Under Difficulties.

A fair but not faithless Parisienne has deviled a novel, ingenious and altogether satisfactory method of celebrating the l«t of April. Having for some time been pestered by the attentions of an aged beau, she finally consented to permit him to visit her oa the day in question. Punctual to the hour he rang, all in his gay attire, and was ushered into the reception-room and into the presence of the lady's husband and brother, one of whom was playing carelessly with his revolver, while the other was putting an edge on a murderous-looking dagger. There was an awful silence for about a minute, when the husband remarked, carelessly, "Oh, you're the man that my wife said was to call to clean the kitchen coppers, eh?" "Precisely," stammered the oy no means gay Lothario, catching at this desperate hope. " AUright, stepthisway I" and the lover was led into the kitchen and set to work. At the ond of his task, having ruined his new suit and sorely abraded his knuckles, he was summoned into the presence of Madame, who paid him three francs, promised to recommend him to her friends as a good workman, and desired the bonne to give the poor man a glass of something to drink.