HOW HE WON THE SCHOOL TEACHER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 11, 12 March 1892, Page 248

HOW HE WON THE SCHOOL TEACHER.

* Yes,’ said the young man, as he threw himself at the feet of the pretty school teacher, • I love you and would go to the world’s end for you.’ • You could not go to the world’s end for me, George. The world, or earth, as it is called, is round, like a ball, and slightly flattened at the poles. One of the first lessons in elementary geography is devoted to the shape of the globe. You must have studied it when you were a boy ’’ • < If course I did, but ’ • And it is no longer a theory. Circumstances have established the fact.’ • 1 know ; but what I meant was that I would do anything to please you. Ah I Angelina, if you but knew the aching void ’ ‘There is no such a thing as a void, George. Nature abhors a vacuum. But, admitting that there could be such a thing, how could the void yon speak of be a void if there was an ache in it ?’ ■ 1 meant to say that my life will be lonely without you ; that you are my daily thought and nightly dream. 1 would go anywhere to be with you. If you were in darkest Africa or at the North Pole, I would fly to you. I ’ • Fly ! It will be another century before man can fly. Even when the laws of gravitation are successfully overcome there still remains, says a late scientific authority, the difficulty of maintaining a balance ’ • Well, at all events,’ exclaimed the youth, ‘ I’ve a pretty fair balance in the bank, and I want you to be my wife. There!’ , • Well, George, since you put it in that light I— -