A Warm Embrace.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 128, 7 November 1884, Page 2

A Warm Embrace.

When Cooper and i Bailey 's menagerie visited Wagga Wagga (says the Sydney Tribune) a bank. clerk of that Tichbornian province had the ill facfc to be smitten by the very prelty' daughter of the very witty clown.: Not many were .the opportunities afforded, the fast and Festiveh 'spark of pressing, his suit with the coy gipsy maiden, but Cupid : invariably lauglts' at the kok.of opportunity! for. importunity. . The favor of an introduction! was an advantage attained without any great difficulty, and as the ardent suiter commenced to foroe the pace after the fasltton of an ill-dis&ip* lifted!racehorse, ifwa* ; not ; l6ng ; befdVe he asked the honor of^a^etea-fefe, wl^ero they ; might' « meet ;' 'bjr Tnbctajighjb alone," and "fer^rorii the; maddening crowd's ighortfler^ ways/ High were bis points!,' and gay was his 'paßiti'of pmsei'when tho drfsmei told him that she would mefeitf' him while the peiformauce wtia oii if he would sneak rt>und totbe back of her'fathfei'stent, 1 ; and 1 vault over the calico enclosure iat the side. At the appointed time" a bystander,^peering over the enclo- ; sure, was shocked to see what ajtyeared to be a young man 'vigorously hugged by a 'damsel m a White robe that shall be nameless' "Pave some 1 decency iv you," shouted the Uninvited Hibernian on-looker^ " and g6 ;and put more clothes on, you ''■■•" i"Wh at m ore he wo uld ! have said was ;dro-wned m the tnoans of the young jnian, and closer inspection 1 snowed •that he was being hugged not by V damsel m deshabille, but by a tame white, bear. His cries brought the clown and his- daughter to the spot, and the young man escaped with 1 a few scratches on his ueck, and on bis body the print of the clown's biggest ; boofc. The wordly education 6f the dirous -had not been bestowed m vain on the clown's pretty daughter.