TELLING THE WRONG STORY.

Western Star, Issue 1353, 11 May 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

TELLING THE WRONG STORY.

They were celebrating their silver wedding, and, of course, the couple were very happy and very affectionate. "Yes," said the husband, "this is the only woman I ever loved. I shall never forget the first time I ever proposed to her." " How did you do it ? " burst out a young man who had been squeezing a pretty girl's hand in the corner. They all laughed and he blushed; but the girl carried it off bravely. " Well, I remember as well as if it were but yesterday. It was at Eichmond. We had been out for a picnic, and she and I got wandering alone. Don'tyouremember,mydear? v The wife nodded and smiled. " We sat; pa the trunk of an old tree. You haven't forgotten, love, have you ? " The wife nodded again. 1 "She began writing in the dust with the point of her parasol. You recall it, sweet, don't you ? " The wife 4 nodded again. "She wrote her name, 'Minnie,' and I said ' Let me put the other name to it.' And I took the parasol and wrote my name—-Smith—-after it." "Howlovely!" broke out a little maid, who was beaming in a suspicious way on a tall fellow with a blond moustache. •' And she took back the parasol and wrote below it, 'No, I won't.' And we went home. You remember it, darling. I see you do. Then he kissed her and the company murmured sentimentally, " wasn't it pretty." The guests had ail departed and the happy couple were left alone. " Wasn't it nice, Minnie, to see all our friends around us bo happy ? " " Yes, it was. But, John, that reminiscence !" "Ah, it seems as if it had been only yesterday. ' "Yes, dear; there are only three things. you're wrong about in that story." "Wrong? Oh, no!" "John I am sorry you told tbav story, because I never went to a picnic with you before we were married; I was never in Bichmonu in my life, and I never refused you. " " My darling, you must be wrong!" " I not wrong, Mr Smith. I have an excellent memory, and, although we have been married twenty-five years, I'd like to know who that minx Minnie was. You never told me about her before." \ . £