Settled—Perhaps Because.

Otago Witness, Issue 2358, 4 May 1899, Page 61

Settled— Perhaps

Because.

They had been married fully three months, and were having their thirteenth daily quarrel — thirteen being an unlucky number.

" You only married me for my money," he said.

"I didn't do anything of the kind," she retorted.

" Well, you didn't marry me because you loved me." ,

"I know I didn't." " In Heaven's name, madam, what did you marry me for? "

" Just to make that hateful Kate Scott you were engaged to cry her eyes onfc becaur-e she had to give you up to another."

He fell down on the white bearskin rug at her feet, and rolled over it until he looked like a huge snowball.

"Great Cassar ! woman !" he spluttered, as ho tried to get the hair out of his mouth, "what have you done? Why, I married you just because Kate Scott threw me over ! "

And by the lime dinner was ready their sweet young hearts were once more so full of sunshine that awnings were quite necessary.

One of the young lad}' witnesses in a housebreaking case before a Scottish High Court caused considerable amusement by an answer nhe gave to a question by the counsel for the defence.

" Is it not a common practice for a stranger to walk up a stair and inquire for a certain person?"' he asked; to which she answered that it was.

t- Then how do you know that the prisoners were not on such a mission in the house referred to"'" continued the legal man.

"Because it did not require three men and a jemmy to go up a stair and ask for a strange person," replied the lady.