AN INTERESTING COUPLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4123, 30 January 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

AN INTERESTING COUPLE.

He was young, he was fair, and he parted his hair, like the average beau, in the middle ; he was proud, he was bold, but the truth must be told, he played like a fiend on the fiddle. But, aside from this vice, he was everything nice, and his heart was so loving and tender, that he always turned pale when he trod on the tail of the cat lying down on the fender. He clerked in the store, and the way that he tore off calico jeans and brown sheeting, would have tickled a calf, and made the brute laugh, in the face of a quarterly meeting. He cut quite a dash with a darling moustache, which he learned to adore and cherish ; for one girl he said, while she dropped her proud head, that it would kill her to see the thing perish. On a Sunday he'd search the straight road to the church, unheeding tht voice of the scorner; and demurely he sat like a young tabby cat, with the saints at the far amen corner. He sung like a bird, aud his sweet voice was heard, fairly tugging away at long metre ; and we speak but the truth, wheu we say that this youth, could out-sing a hungry mosquiter.

She was young, she was fair and she scrambled her hair like the average belle of the city ; she was proud, but not bold, yet the truth must be told, that the way she chewed wax was a pity. But, aside from this vice, she was everything nice, and the world much applauded her bustle, and the Fayctteville boys, being charmed by the noise, walked miles just to hear the things rustle. She cut quite a swell did this waxcliewing belie, and the men flocked in armies to meet her; but she gave them the shirk, for she loved the young clerk who sang like a hungry uiosquiter. She hemmed and she hawed, and she sighed and she chawed, until her heart and jaws were both broken ; then she walked by his store while he stood at the door awaiting some amative token. She raised up her eyes with a pretty surprise and tried to enact the proud scorner ; but to tell the plain truth, she just grinned at the youth, who loved the devout amen corner.