GALLANT YOUNG MEN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3713, 9 June 1883, Page 4

GALLANT YOUNG MEN.

She was very pretty, says the Washington Chronicle, andwore a pleasant smile when die entered au avenue car last evening. There were six young men who immediately vacated their seats, and delighted themselves by casting alternative glances at the fair one and tho vaciint spaces. She took the nearest seat with a nod to all and a bewitching smile ; six. young men bowed and sat down, while one young man bowed and stood up, and imagined himself a martyr. She carried a beautiful child in her arms, and it was very playful. One yotmir lLiim. thong-lit hlic avus itw aunt., and two others were quite positive sho was its mother. Meanwhile, the child amused itself. It climbed, and crowed, and laughed, •find played, and the lady laughed, and petted it. One of the young men, a saerilgeous wretch, commenced humming, " I wish I was a baby," when the child, kicking in a playful mood, knocked a handkerchief from the lady's lap on the floor. There were four of the young men who made a simultaneous dive for the muslin, and two got it, they came up smiling, neither willing to relax his grasp, and two hands were extended toward the fair one. An old lady on the opposite side tittered, ■nut tho young lady held the child in front of her face and blushed. The young men looked at each other, then at the . Their mouths and eyes opened ; and each handed it to the other; it fell upon tho floor, and the two young men silently departed from the car. The other young men looked out of the windows, and somebody whimpered, "It wasn't a handkerchief."