A YOUNG HUSBAND WHO COULD NOT BE TRIFLED WITH.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1190, 1 November 1882, Page 2

A YOUNG HUSBAND WHO COULD NOT BE TRIFLED WITH.

♦ A couple left the train at the Union depot and walked up Jefferson avenue yesterday. She had long curls and a pink dress and a yellow sash, and he had a long collar sawing his ears off, a buttonhole bouquet, and a pair of new boots freshly greased, one size too small. They hadn't walked two blocks when they came to a man sitting on a box in front of a store, and as he caught sight of them a grin crept over his face like molasses spreading out on a shingle. " Grinning at us, I s'pose V queried the young man, as he came to a halt.— " Yes." frankly replied the sitter. " Tickles you most to death to see us take hold of hands, dont't it?"—" It i does." "And you imagine you can see us , feed ing eao] 1 other caramels, can't you V i —"lean." " And you shake all over at the way < we gawp around and keep our mouths ( optni I"— « hat's me." 1 " Well, this is me ! I'm not purty < and i haven't been cultivated between < the rows, nor hilled up nor fertilized. ■* I ain't what you call stall-fed, and the ' old man looks 20 per cent, worse than I do, but it ■• •; : . .;■;. r ..-;. v •; ; minute to jam you :„■,•;: [,i-i v.to i've 1

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