PERCY'S BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

PERCY'S BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.

'Lovely Phyllis loved a lawyer Percy Algernon M'Phee, , Who was waiting for a practice, Waiting long and patiently. (Also, tho' she proudly scorned him, She'd a slave in Reuben Lee.) r Slowly passed the ling'ring seasons, Like a long-protracted dream, t Till the legal mind of Percy Hit upon a novel scheme. "Phyllis, dear," he said one evening! , When the gas was turned down low, "Far from me be all complaining, 'But I find the law is slow"So, to hasten on our wedding, i I've evolved a little plan. Now, don't start, dear, but just listen ; You must love some other man ! "(And, I don't mind hinting, dearest, I'd select rich Reuben Lee). Lead him on till he proposes, Then accept him gracefully. "Treat him gently till you feel he's Firmly fixed upon the hook, Then just play him as the angler Plays the troutleb in the 'brook ! "Make him prance and make him grovel, So that, weary of his, life,* He declares, in anguished accents, You shall never be his wife. 1 "Then,, his billets-doux collecting, • Come and call on your M'Phee, Who's been waiting at a distance Calmly, but expectantly. ' "And together we'll consider, "~ And together institute Just a little twenty-thousand- \ ' Dollar breach of promise suit!'* Phyllis, tho' at first reluctant, Was, at last, completely won; . ' And the pact was sealed with kisses ' As the clock was striking one. Two weeks later Percy chuckled, As he read his Morning Bee, ' j At the news of the betrothal Of his love to Reuben Lee. ■ All 'that day he • spent hi Harlem, Vainly searching for a flat,Which would hold a small piano, And his darling's theatre hat. i But that night when tired Percy Opened his hall-bedroom door, ' Here's the note he found from Phyllis, Lying blankly on the floor: "Dearest Peroe" (it ran), 'Tm sony That our* plans have fallen through — But- when a man's in such a Enrry, Pray, what can a poor girl do? "So, reluctantly,. I write you, ' That this afternoon at three, At the church around the corner, I was wed to Reuben Lee. E.S. — When, the honeymoon is ended Come and.Jiave a cup of tea!" — J^ H. Holliday, in Life. •