LOST THE GLOVES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8941, 16 December 1907, Page 6

LOST THE GLOVES.

Tho other day Miss Fannie Lomer ran across the road to see an intimate friend. As is usual with youug ladies, they had a good deal to tell one another. In tho course of the conversation Fauuie said : "I used to think that Gus Simpson was a nico youug mau, but I just hate him now." "Why, what, has he done?" "He's treated me shamefully." "Iv what way?" "Why, the other eveuiug, at a party, I said to him, 'Let's play the old game of temptation. If I say 'Yes' or 'No' to your questions, I'll owe you a box of gloves, and if you say 'Yes' or 'No' you'll give mo a box.' " "Then, what?" "Well, after the party he took mo home, and all the way he talked as sweetly as could be about love, aud that mon should not live alone, and all that. Aud wheu we got to the front gate, he said, 'Fauuie, I have waited for this opportunity a loug time—will you marry mo?' I whispered 'Yes,' in a low voice; aucl " (here her sobs choked her voice). "Aucl what did he do then?" inquired her listener, eagerly. "He— just— chuckled aud said, 'You've lost, Fauuie. I take number nines'; then laughed with all his might. That's what he did. "