ST. VALENTINE’S DAY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VII, 16 February 1895, Page 167

ST. VALENTINE’S DAY.

He was a very small boy, and he very much admired his tall, beautiful cousin Emily. He was too shy to tell her he loved her, but he thought he might send her a valentine. He had no money just then—at eight years’ old, money goes very rapidly—so he set to work to make one. He secured some rather sticky silver paper, which had once contained chocolate, and this he pasted on to a somewhat shabbyu g piece of pink P a P er - But Bobby thought it exquisite. With a great deal of care he wrote, in his best school hand, letting the words wander about between the bits of silver paper • Derest Lady. If youll be my Valentine 11l be yours for ever undever amen so beit.’ The spelling was rather peculiar; and the words a little mixed up, but Bobby was quite sure that never had fair lady received such a lovely letter from her true knight on Valentine’s Day. He did not know her address, and was uncertain about the spelling of her surname. After some puzzling he wrote : This letter is for Miss Righte. Wellington, so plese postman take it to her. Bat the young lady never received it.