A Classical Lover.
They do many things better in America. They have, in addition to other weaknesses, various ways of making love. Here is the answer which a young girl sent to a proposal of marriage“ Ad meum carisnmum Joiannem. My dear Jack,—Your love epistle is lying between the leaves of my geometry. That’s the place for it. I pat all my difficult problems there, offers of marriage, along with the dreadful account! papa makes me keep. Ton say yon wank to marry me. Well, I flatter myself I can eon jugate the verb amo very readily, so 1 make answer as followsA mem, subjunctive—l may love yon if you are good to me ; amartm, imperfect—l would love you if the old gentleman would only come down somely; amabo , future—l will love provided, of coarse, yon let the other girls alone; amavi —l have loved you since the night you out that horrid Cornelia Bog* worthy, who beats us all in English lit. | omo, I love yon now; ana me—Love a% and, dear Jack, love me hard and lorn strong, for I’m a Rocky Mountain giri, and have been accustomed to bears from my earliest childhood. Five tt vale/ Thy own |(ate. Postscript!on; I osculate the lips that call me darling. ’’ No wonder be (pre* ferred a breach of promise action.
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Evening Star, Volume 8505, Issue 8505, 2 May 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)
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