Won by a Scratch.
"It was such a good joke on me,"' said the girl in the grey velvet toque to the girl in the , blue velvet shoulder-cape, as they stirred their ! hot chocolate, '"that I must tell you. i "You know how John has been proposing to me at regular intervals ever since he was out of knickerbockers. Well, he did it again the other night, and with his usual fatality, choose an occasion when I was very cross. "He did it a little more awkwardly than usual, too, deliberately choosing the oldfashioned method of offering me ' his hand and , heart.' " i Here she paused to drink some chocolate, \ and the girl in blue asked breathlessly what , she said. I "Oh !" remarked the other, in the lone of one relating an event of no importance, "I told him that I believed I was already pro- j vided with the full quota of bodily organs, j and that I wouldn't deprive him 1" " And what did he say?" " Well, Belle, that's the funny thing. He Fftpmed to brace up, and said, politely, that 1 at any rate there was no doubt ;ibout my hay- ' ing my full share of cheek ! Aud I was so delighted to find a man capable of even that, much repartee on beiiiK rejected — that 1 ac- j cepted him !"
Won by a Scratch.
Otago Witness, Issue 2373, 24 August 1899, Page 61
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in