Both Dissatisfied.

Otago Witness, Issue 2504, 19 March 1902, Page 72

Both Dissatisfied.

They woro seated on the sof;i — o>ai i=, he wa--- fitting on the ■-ofa and =ln' had a kner-y position on l.i= lap They weren't talking, for ho had seemed sad during the thioe hour, and 50 minute* thc-y hail been Mttmg there. A Mgh, vounding as if v had been drawn out with a corkscrew and broken off with a sledge-hammer, broke tiie awful -<tillncss. She clasped her 16-button kid glo\p arms aiound his fifteen and a half nee'e. and planted a crop of ki»se» on his downy lip-.

"Why dees my darling sigh?" she a?kfd. "What do you say? E\angehne, haven't I always treated you a« a gentleman should a lad> '; "' •She nodded r.fni inativcly. '"Haven't I always done i.iy l»c-t to act the- truo lover "'

Xod number two. " And haven't I Iwscgrd and ki-^ed you for hour-j at p --tirKh. until my .inn- ached a- if with nngbono raid my nock \\a~ bent like an ox \o\o~'

The third time she nodded

" Well, knowing this to be the r a=e. why do you mistreat me as you ha\r> io-night. as you did last night, and e\ory other night foi =ix months' Why am I tlm> tortured by you? Would you ha\e mo think you faUe?"

Once more she grasped him with a rnn vt;kve motion, and exclaimed, m rolling mill tones :

"Oh, Choilc" Augustus Supiema Lex E=le. what have I done to make you think mo false' How. in the name of the Sc\en Wondeis and tho Mammoth Cave, have I mistreated you, my love, my own? ''

' " Well, if you are not false, prove it," he said. 1 "Gi\e me the tc-t," rojilicel, with animation. I lMea?e sit on tho =ofa. then, or c^anpe Vinpe« I ha\e been neaily dead foi the p.it two hom=. " 1 An hour afterwards ho left "Tired, indeed" she f.aid to herself "I only weigh 1401b, and Mary Jenkins weighs 1801b, yet Frank Fisher can hold her on ' his knee for hotns at a time and not get tiied "