TOO MUCH BUTTER.
"Do you really mean it, Mr. Spooner, when you say that 1 am the best girl in the world ?" asked Miss Flypp, after the young man h«d suggested that she should become Mrs. Spooner. "Indeed, I do, Miss Flypp," asservated the young man. "I say it again—you are the best girl in the world." "And the loveliest .1 think you said ?" "The loveliest, without doubt." "I think you said something about my accomplishments, too?" I did. I said the} excelled those of other girls." "I believe you called me sweet ?" "'A sweeter woman ne'er drew bre&th,' " rpioted the ardent lover. "You used the word 'perfect,' too. didn't you ?" "I did. I also pronounced you the pink of perfection, propriety, and mcdesty, the empress of my heart, the peerless one among the beauteous creatures of your sex, a maiden adorable, enchanting, and worthy, of the hand of the best man on earth. Say tne word thai will make me Hi.happiest man on earth, my own Dora," t "Before 1 give you an answer. Mr. Spooner, I should like to ask you a question." "A dozen if you like." "One will be enough. Don't you think that you have a good deal of assurance to expect to marry a wo man with all those excellent qualities to marry such an ordinary limn as you ?" Then Mr. Spooner went home.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2644, 4 September 1906, Page 2
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