VERY UNKIND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 169, 26 May 1879, Page 2

VERY UNKIND.

If the parent of the period only knew what unnecessary anguish he often causes tho young would-be ditto, he would doubtless, "let up" on the latter unhappy individual occasionally. The other evening young Bilkings went to serenade his'girl on Van Ness Avenue. The amateur orchestra, of which hois a member, had hardly squelched out the first two bars of " Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming," when the second storey window went up, and old Bofcts—Amelia's father, stuck his head out and remarked; ' i "Is there no way|of compromising this thing 1" . " What-w-what?" gasped Bilkings

" I say, can't wo make some arrangement to get out of this matter. How does four dollars and an old gas stove strike you.?" « why—this—this is a serenade, explained Bilkings. " Exactly j so I see. Now, suppose I were to stand the beer, and cab fare all round, wouldn't you go out in the suburbs somewhere, and work oft the rest of it in some Deaf and Dumb Asylum or other 1' "Well, I'm blowed!" ejaculated the crushed lover. "I should think you would be hitched to the end of that bi({ trombone, Don't point it this way, for heaven's sake; it might go off?" " Come down here and say that, like a mail," roared the big drum, who was full of Budweuerand fury, " Yon bald-headed old pelican, come down." '( I_l_think we had better-better go, as it were, boys," mnrmured the mortified Bilkins, and the disgusted band walked sadly off, scornfully ignoring Botts' parting injunction to reform and lead better lives after the tiling blew over.