Shattered Traditions.
"You young scoundrel !"' o\t laimed the unwilling father 111-law. when tho eloping couple pi evented themseKe? for parental forgiveness and a place to live. "You con .'c ioncel<?ss scamp' You stole my daughter u\\ v, aud di=regarded all the com entionalitas of society! And yet you d=k for fcrgncness !"' "Ycu oU >}undrej. wliat did you. doi"
retorted the neiv son-in-law. "What did you do? You let us elope and did not pursue us on hcr=eback with a shotgun. You have shattered oil the traditions of eloptanems and have blasted all the romance of the affair for u=. We might as well have got mairied to the rumpty-tum-tum of the (hurc-h organ, and let you pay the bill. You ba\en't a spark of appreciation in your makeup !" Crust ed by the meiited criticism, the father-in-law in-, .ted them to supper, for they were rather hungry. — Baltimore American.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2505, 26 March 1902, Page 73
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