SHE AWOKE TOO SOON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue IX, 3 March 1894, Page 216

SHE AWOKE TOO SOON.

* Fob forty long years have my good old wife and I travelled hand in hand adown life’s thorny road,’ said old Deacon Gush at a party the other evening, ‘ and in all those years not one single harsh, hasty, unkind word has passed our lips when speaking to each other. Isn’t that true, mother ?’ ‘Mother’ had quietly fallen asleep on the sofa by Mr Gush’s side, and as he laid his hand caressingly on her shoulder, she gave a little snort of defiance, and said sharply, ‘ Get up yourself and build the fire, Sam Gush. I built it last, and I’ll see you in Jeiicho before I build it this morning, you Oh—oh—I—I—why, where am I? I guess I dropped off to sleep.’ ‘ Aud I guess you’d better have stayed asleep, Lizzy Gush 1’ hissed Samuel into her ear, as the crowd round the sofa made a rush for doors and dark corners, where giggling and tittering could be indulged in freely.