A Mean Trick.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1806, 2 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Mean Trick.

A man who probably hailed from Buffalo played a powerful mean triok on a Detroit bridal couple at Niagara Falls the other evening. They went to a hotel and registered, had supper and then started out for a night view of the Mighty Eoarer. They had not gone far when a man called to them and said : "Have you just been married ? " " We h-have," answered the groom. " Going to stay here a day or two ? " "Yes." " Having registered at my hotel, you prob-f/ ably intend remaining there ? " " Yes sir." " Well, I want to say a word to you. I clon't want any ducky-deary nonsense around my house. I want no popsy-wopsy business on the verandah. I wa^t no squeezing hands on the balconies, or feeding each other at the table." The groom let his arm fall from his bride's waist in a slow and painful manner, and the stranger continued: " The fir3t time you call her peaches and crcara, or she calls you her darling, out you i go!" ' " Y-yes, sir. 1 ' " She's no sweeter than ten thousand other girls, and you're no more of a darling than I am, and I wont stand love-sick nonsense." He walked away with that, and pSjplifat the Falls who knew the bridal conpU^^ta^ amazed to hear them address eaoh OtbOT as Mr. and Mrs., and to see what precautions they took to prevent touching hands or betraying any symptoms of love. They put in two wi etched days, and it was only as they were upon the point of leaving that they discovered how a base villian had duped them. — Detroit Free Press.