Nasty, Very Nasty
A young man and a young woman lean over tho front gato. They are lovers. It is moonlight. Ho is loth to loa\e, as the parting is the last. He is about to go away. She is reluctant to see him depait. They swing on the gate. I'll never forget you," he says, " and if death should claim me, my last thought will be of you." " I'll be true to you," she sobs; " I'll never see anybody else or lo\e them as long as I live." They part. Six years later he return". Kis sweetheart of former years has married. They meet at a paity. She has changed greatly; between the dances the lrcognition takes place. " Let me see," she mu=es, with her fan beating a tattoo on her pretty hand, " was it you or your brother who wa= my old sweetheart? "' "Really I don't know," he says. "Probably my father."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2455, 3 April 1901, Page 70
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154Nasty, Very Nasty Otago Witness, Issue 2455, 3 April 1901, Page 70
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