LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.

North Otago Times, 7 September 1905, Page 2 (Supplement)

LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.

WOULD KNOTT,

SoysKeuben Kuolt to his fair, in language burning hoi, " Matilda do you love mo deal!" Says she: " I love you.-Knotl," ''Oh, say not so I" again heeriud; ' ''Oh, share with, ran my lot! " Oh, say thai you will bo my bride!'' Says she: " I'll wed vou, Knott," " Oh, cruel fair, to servo me so! Hove you well, you wot!" " I could not wed you, Keub," says she, "For then I should be Knoll." A light breaks in nn Ueuben's mind

An in his aims she got. She looks dcmuicly in his face, And sayß: " l'ray kiss me, Kuolt!" tf)i , A MATTER OF I'OLIUY.

A beautiful and bashful young wcnian af about nineteen summers called recently it the office of 11 life-assurance agent, and isked him timidly if he could 101 l her how long people of a ceitain age would live. " Madam," loplied Iho agent, coughing respectfully behind a prospectus, and drawing his chair nearer to her, " hero ore out tables of expectation and averago mortality, which contain all the information upon the subject that you can desiro," " Well," said she, " how long will a man of sixty-seven, and who eats peas with his knife, live?''

" According to our table, madam," replied thoagent, " ho should on Iho avoiage, survive eleven years, three months, and sixteen days." "That," said tho tisitor, "would be till the 21st of April, 1910?"

" Precisely, madam, on the averago exportation of mortality, for we must all die, and it is, therefore, well to insure against loss to the loved ones in a company whose character—"

" And how much oould 1 insure his life for?"

" Oh, for any amount—say f»r ten thouBand pounds," heauswered.taking up a blank form of application, " t,et me recommend the unexpected advantages olfercd by out noD-foifeilablo endowment policy.' " Vi ell I" said the young wuman, " I think, then, that I'll marry him."

" Insure him, jou mean?" corrected the agent, "No, marry him; you inßuro iiim. You Me," blio added, willi n burst of confidence, "I lovo Herbert, unci Mr, Uawkins in old soougli to be my grandfather. But UerbeM is poor, and 1 juet worship- the corner lotc thai Mr, Uawkins builds ou, And Her belt is very patient, and soys that if I will only fix a day, do matter how long ho may havo to nail, ho will be happy. Nowyiusay Mr, Dawkinß will die by the 21st of April, 1910; and, as it wouldn't be decent lo marry again lill I'vobcen uyear in mourning, I'll arrange lo marry [leibtul on the 22nd of Apiil, 1911, and if Mr. Uawkins doesn't die by thin, you'll giro me len thousand pounds. Oh) thank you," and with it deep bow stio swept out of the offico.

Mildred; Did you know Harold Jiirigo had proposed to Vcatu Huzbin ?

Mabel : No, when 1 retried him last Saturday he told me he was going to do somethiug desperate, but I supposed lit meant suicide, or enlisting as a soldier, or something like that.' l'oor fellow I How he must have taken it to heart I

The other day, according to an American correspondent, a Denver girl kissed a soldier good-bye at the railway station, with the remark, " God bless you : stand up for Colorado," Bel wood his boob the departing warrior replied, "I am from Nebraska, but I'll try to Hand up fur both Slates now." Thereupon she kissed him again for Nebraska,

In the Boarding House.—Mr, Spinksi U, Mils Jinks, I'm just getting up a BweepHake, and I've put your name down, Miss Jinks; Keally, Mr, Sploke, 1 would rather not, I don't understand racing. Mr, Jinks: If jou decline, I'm sorry, I'll have to sowtoh you, , Miw Jinksi Sir! Yoa will tokeoosaoh liberty I I h»w never bean toratchod by » youog raw, sad I doVt. |nt«Hd to allow It m\ '•-'"•■'