The Joker Was Accepted.
He was a comic writer, and asked her to be his wife. He proposed as seriously as a humorous man could, and she laughed He looked blue. Then bhe smiled, and said : "That is a capital joke" "What's a joke?" he asked, In surprise. "Your latest. Shall you have it printed?" "That was no joke. I meant it." "You did? Why. you have written so much in ridicule of love, courtship, and marriage " "Well — cr — cr — yes — but ' ' "I should never suit you. I write postscripts, stop before the muror, am slow m dressing for church, admire a now hat, sometimes want a new dress, and " "But, my dear Angelina, I should never object to " "You have shown me that happiness ends with marriage, and I have a mother who
would be a mothei-in-lav. to you, and who would want to v i^it me; ancl "
"Why. I " "And I have my animosities, and may look round in chmch, and you would find budi a lot of things to write about."
"My pieciou 5 -, I would only write about other people then: the nna;libodrs, the " "Tbo^o horrid Mits Sniffietons?" "That's a fact." "And the .-tuck-up folk over the way?" ''Mo 4 certainly "
"Enough! I am your?."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 69
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