WAITING FOR HIM.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 109, 9 May 1908, Page 2

WAITING FOR HIM.

A young mill-hand, having lost his sweetheart through his own hotheaded folly, first threatened to commit suicide, and then became vulgarly insistent in his demands for the return of the present he had given her. "What good will they be to you if you're going to drown yourself in t' mill-pond?" she scoffed. " Never you mind, I want them back," he said, evasively. " Very well, I'll see that /you have them," the girl reluctantly agreed. But five days passed, and the young man still bemoaned the loss of the forfeited trinkets. Once more he requested their return.

" Oh, lad, I wish you'd stop worryin' me, 1' sighed the girl, anxious now for a reconciliation. " I've given t' presents up long since. They're waiting for you at the bottom of the millpond, tied up in a red handkerchief; you can't miss but see 'em when you jump in."

Then the humble young man apologised, and the quarrel was patched up in the old sweet way.