COULDN’T RESIST THE BANK BALANCE.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 48, 20 July 1908, Page 2

COULDN’T RESIST THE BANK BALANCE.

* “Yes,” said the young man, as he threw himself at the feet of the sweet girl graduate, “I love you, and would go to the world's end for you ! ” “You could n«t go to the end of the world for me, J ames. The world as it is called, is round, like a ball, slightly flattened at the polos. One of tlie first lessons in elementary geography is devoted to the shape of the globe. You must have studied it when you were a boy.” “Of course, I did, but ” “And it is no longer a theory. Circumnavigators have established the fact.” “I know, but what I meant was that I would do anything to please you. Ah, Minerva, if you only knew the aching void ” “There is no such a thing as a vqid, James. Nature abhors a vacuum. But, admitting that there could be such a thing, how could the void you speak of be a void if there was an ache in it?” “I meant to say that my life will be lonely without you—that you are my daily thought and my nightly dream. I would go anywhere to be with you. If you were is Australia or at the North Pole I would fly to you. I ” “Fly ! Mon don't fly yet, dear boy. Even when the laws of gravity are overcome, there still remain (says a late scientific authority) the difficulty of maintaining a balance ” “Well, at all events,” exclaimed the youth, “I’ve got a pretty fair balance at my banker's, and I want you to be my wife. Thors !” “Well, James, since you put it in that way, I ”