INCONVENIENT RECOLLECTIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 11, 18 March 1893, Page 264

INCONVENIENT RECOLLECTIONS.

‘ Do you know, my dear,’ she suddenly said, as she looked up from her work, ‘ do you know that next week will be the twentieth anniversary of our wedding ?’ ‘ls that so ? By George ! How time flies ! Why, I had no idea of it.’ ‘Yes, we have been married about twenty long years,’ she continued, with something of a sigh, ‘ You have been a good husband to me, darling.’ ‘ And you have been a blessed little wife to me, Susan. Come here and ]et me kiss you. There !’ ‘ I was thinking to day—l was thinking of—of ‘ Of that sickly-faced baboon who used to walk home with you from church before.l knew you,’ he interrupted. ‘ Who do yon mean ?’ ‘ Why, that Brace fellow, of course.’ ‘ Why, George, he wasn’t such a bad fellow.’ ‘Wasn’t he? Well, I’d like to know of a worse one; and there you were, as good as engaged to him. ’ ‘ Yes, George, but yon know yon were keeping company at the same time with that Helen Perkins.’ ‘ That Helen Perkins. Wasn’t Miss Perkins one of the loveliest and prettiest young ladies in Birmingham ?’ ‘ No, she wasn’t. She had teeth like a horse !’ • She did, eh ! How about that stoop-shouldered, whiteheaded Brace?’ ‘ And such big feet as she had ! Why, George, she was the laughing stock of the town.’ ‘ Nothing of the kind—nothing of the kind ! She was a young lady who would have made a model wife.’ ‘ Then why did you not marry her, and all her moles and warts, and mushroom eyes ?’ • Don’t talk that way to me! Her eyes were as nice as yours ?’ ‘ They were not.’ ‘ They were. I believe you are sorry because you didn’t marry that Brace !’ ‘ Ami I know that you are sorry that you didn’t marry that beautiful and accomplished Miss Perkins I’ ‘lam ! Oh I I thought you said I had been a good husband to. you ?’ • And didn’t you Call me your blessed little wife?’ Then he plumped down and began to read the mortgage sales and advertisements in the papers, and she picked up her sewing, and gave the cat a gentle kick. These old things will come up now and then, and Somehow neither side ever gets entirely over them.