AN INTERESTING COUPLE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 2164, 17 February 1875, Page 3

AN INTERESTING COUPLE.

Ho was young, be was fair, and ho parted bis hair, like tbo averago beau, in tbo middle ; bo was proud, bo was bold, bat the truth must bo told, ho played like a fiend on the fiddle. But, aside from this vice, he was everything nico, and his heart was to loving and tender, that ho always turned pale when ho trod on tho tail of the eat lying down on the fender. Ho clerked in the store, and the way that he tore off calico jeans and brown sheeting, would have tickled a calf, and made the brute laugh, in tho face of a quarterly meeting. Ho cut quito a dash with a darling moustache, which he learned to adore and cherish ; for one girl he said, while she dropped her proud head, that it would kill her to see the thing perish. On a Sunday he'd search the straight road to the church, unheeding the voice of the •corner; and demurely ho sat like a young tabby cat, with tho saints at the far amen corner. He sang like a bird, and his sweet voice was beard, fairly tugging away at long metro ; and we speak but the truth, when we say that this youth, could out sing a hungry mosquiler.

She was young, she was fair, and she scrambled her hair like the average belle of tho city ; she was proud, but not bold, yet the truth must be told, that the way she chewed wax was a pity. But, aside from this vice, sho was everything nice, and the world much applauded her bustle, and the Fayetteville boys boing charmed by the noise, walked miles just to hear the things rustle. Sho cut quite » swell did this wax-chewing belle, and the men flocked in armies to meet her ; but she gave them the shirk, for aha loved the young clerk who sang lifee a hungry mosquitar. She hemmed and sho hawed, and sho sighed and she chawed, until her heart and jaws were both broken ; then sho walked by h« store while he stood at the door awaiting some ttmativo token. ' Sho raised up her eyes with a pretty surprise and tried to enact tho proud scorner; but to tell the plain truth, she just grinned at the youth, who loved the devout amen corner.