A LOVELY BURDEN.
Out* ladj readers will be shocked to learn, there lives a man with a soul bo dead as to glory in having extracted from a hundred and forty*. tH*e¥ engaged lovers how their sweet- , hearts when put to the A hundred and '^forty stoutly maintained thatthe hundred and forty sinsle ladies involved had, not a single word, each and all signjficanOy remarking, " Actions speajk louder than words" IVo of the remaining gentlemen asseverated that when they proposed, the bewitching maidens respectively nrnvmuied ,H' ! John! you /don't mean it I <.vs4ris is- too much happiness: too much! IjjeVe^theught j-ou loved _ . .me ! ,-It'^^p^^i ye loved j-ou, : ; ' ohi so lo^g^aifcfiE^cfu^jto bo so 'happy, so blest! 1 "t v *'•-'•:* These young men both confessed they tpould rather the young ladies ' had not been so talkative about the t .Jnattor, just at that timp. The lasj; : : 'oftlie 143 happy lovers saiil, he hacl notgone thrqu»)i more than a quarter of v very carefully prepared proposition before the girl — a blonde, weighing some, UjOjbSj — aro/se,-. threw herself iieavily ori'his lap,vigoli|ously wound her arms round bis neck*, and eried — .-.. 1.-.;;-:: : . r_ f i •' You let, I'll have you, jElenry! ?Qffljtfsk»qQSmtfyfi}&} hesr yoii say that for six months. Why did'nt yoii say it long ago, you stupid tld man? There! You're mine! (Another kiss.) All mine! (Two kisses.) vAhA inobpajr^se, , ; wjll get, ; yoii! (Aocompaniinent ad libitum.) And sphere ; ; 4fjeyer you gp 4>a*pk upon me, and won't marry me, I'll make it unhealthy for you, you bet ! I'm none of your soft, spring-chicken-heartod girls." one inquired— "Dq^ yw tlM«k f^r the occasion, she was rather boisterous ?" and was yburown'sake do'n'J go back on her !'>
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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 54, 4 March 1879, Page 3
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278A LOVELY BURDEN. Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 54, 4 March 1879, Page 3
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