IN THE TOILS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9157, 25 March 1893, Page 10 (Supplement)

IN THE TOILS.

TOO GENEROUS WITH CUPID'S VOCABULARY. A VEBY anxious young farmer, rigged out in his Sunday clothes, and hie red necktie visible half a milo away, called at Iho Twelfth-street Polico Station the other day and asked the sergeant in charge if ho would answer a legal question for him. " Perhaps 80what is it?" was tho reply. " Well, what is breach of promise ?" " It is going back on the girl you arc engaged to bo married to." * " But what is an engagement in law ?" " Leading tho girl to think you intend to marry her." " Haven't you gob to ask her to have you right out?" " No. What is your case? How far did you go ?" " Well, I said to her that I. thought we'd make a good team if hitched up, bub that wasn't nothing." „ "lb wasn't, eh? lb was the same thing as asking her to be your wife. liver call her pet names." "1 think I called her Birdie a few times." " Ever write any loving letters to her ?" "I began my letters, Darling One,' I think." " Well, you are stuck, and if you want to go to State prison for fourteen years you just try to give that girl the shake ! Better go right home and marry her." "Jupiter! but I've got to! I kinder thought she had the lift on me, but wanted to bo sure. I've offered her a boss to give up ray letters and quit claim on me, but she wouldn't/ do it. I'll add twenty-four saw logs and four cords of wood, and if she still refuses I'll have to too the chalk-lino. So callin' a gal Birdie isaskin' her to marry you P" " About the same thing." " Saltpetre ! but if that's the case I'll have about twenty of 'em in my hair. Which street leads to Canada ?" "Keep right down this street." And ho was walking in the snow in the middle of tho road as far as they could trace him.