CAPTURING A SCHOOLMA'AM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9064, 26 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

CAPTURING A SCHOOLMA'AM.

" Yes," said the young man as he threw himself at tho feet of the pretty schoolteacher, " I love you, and would go to the world's end for you." " You could not go to the end of tho world for me, James. The world, or the earth, as it is called, is round like a ball, slightly flattened at the poles. Ono of the 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 havo established the fact. "I know, but what I meant was that I would do anything to please you. Ah! Minerva, if you knew tho aching void " "There is no such thing as void, James. Nature abhors a vacuum; but admitting that there could bo such a thing, how could tho void you speak of be a void if there was an ache in it?" "I meant to say that my life will bo lonely without you ; that you are my daily thought and my nightly dream. I would go anywhere to be with you. If you wero in Australia or at tho North Pole I would fly to you. I—" "Fly! It will be another century beforo men can fly. Even when the laws of gravitation are successfully overcome there will still remain, says a late scientific authority, tho difficulty of maintaining a balance—" " Well, at all events," exclaimed the youth, "I've got a. pretty fair balance in the savings bank, and I want you to be my wife, There!" " Well, James, since you put it in that light, I—" Let tho curtain fall.