KISSES BY TELEGRAPH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5056, 15 September 1894, Page 3

KISSES BY TELEGRAPH.

"Well, did you gqb niy v letters, Jeannie P " asked Jock Tamson of hit buxom sweetheart, to whom he had | returned after a six months' absence. | "Ay, an' yer kisses too, Jock/' Mid Jeannie slyly. : "Oh, the crosses/' laughed Jock. " They werena site owoet kisses as thae anes, I warrant/' and he bestowed ft hearty smack on the upturned face. " Weel, I'm no pae aure, though they've a queer-like taste when they come by ' telegraph/' said Jeannie. "By telegraph!" echoed Jook, in an amazed way. "Ay," returned Jeannie. "Ye see, I never kent what the crosses at the fit 0* yer letters were for till ae day I speired at Jest Meyers, an' she tell'c me they were a receipt tor twenty kisses ye had sent to me by telegraph, an' that tbey wid bo lyin' waiting mo at the poßfc office." "An' ye believed her?" gasped Jock. "Of course j what for no P Sae I gaed doun to thfi telegraph office an' tell't the clerk what I was expecting the beet way I could. He looked puzzled kin' at first, but after he understood the thing he was rale ceevil. He took me ahint the counter, and put two wee spurtlo-like things into my ban's, and then gar'dme uteekmy e'en. Then there wie a wee bit dirl gaed a* thro* me, and then smack cam' the first kite, then another dirl, an' then smack cam* another ane, an' I got a' the twenty ye sent in less than a twinkle. But it's queer hoo the telegraph tak\> a r.V the offock o'a body's whisker," she added, meditatively. *fl declare I wid niver akent ye had bristle." "Na, 1 daurs&y no/' eaid Jock, as he strode off in search of the beardless telegrah clerk. When that worthy appeared tue next day with a patch on his left eye and hi* arm in a eling, he thought it necessary to explain to his friends that he had met with a severe, accident in com** quence pf the zealous dißpniurge et^mb cfficiftUut^i. "■:' #.;sc\ .