HE SAVED THEM.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1341, 28 December 1883, Page 2

HE SAVED THEM.

He was a young man with a forty dollar suit of clothes on, and be had made arrangements to take is girl and her mother down to Put- in- Bay. He left them on the boat while he ran up town to get some cigars, and scarcely had he disappeared when a man with a hatchet face and a red goatee approached the ladies and inquired of the mother : ' Going down to the Bay V * Yes, sir.' • Never seasick in a gale, eh V 1 Gale ! Is it going to blow V she asked in alarm. ' Flag, is up, and that means wind, you know ? madam, the — the young man who was just here is— you know — that is, he loves your charming daughter.' 1 He waits upon her, sir.' 'Ah ! exactly. If you want him for a son-in-law dont't you go on this trip ! < Sir I' I'm telling you honest, madam. Your daughter will be sea-sick first. She will call for a lemon, and some pickles, and she will sigh and groan, and her hair will come down, and nor

l»-.,vvs skew around, and in half an hour you won't know her. She'll be a faded fl )W er— a crushed blossom. The you tig man won't know whether it ia his daring or rU"npled muslin.' Deu< m) ! bu fc . I'm alarmed T • And Chen you'll begin -to h vt« the thou.sht of friei pork and baked potatoes and rib roasts, and ten minutes later you'll thump down on a sofa and clutch and cling and groan and lament.'

1 But George will be kind to us.' * Madam, George will have plentyof business on hand. Chaps with thick set ears and full face are apt to be very sick. Before he can get a lemon for Melvina and a pickle for you he'll flop down.and call himself names and wonder how he was ever struck on Melvina or why he ever wanted you for a mother-in-law. He'll heave up and he'll wish you and Melvina in Mexico, and the upshot will be no wedding— no cards— no cottage with a clematis trailing over the front door. Madam, I am a stranger to you, but I ■warn you from a heart filled with the milk of human kindness. The only woman I ever loved went with me on 41 sea-sick excursion. My love was -turned to gall, and I gave her the sake. 1

He then left. In three minutes mother and daughter were on the wharf In three more they were two blocks away, and as they met George and turned him back his countenance had the color of boiled iron and his voice "betrayed a cruel determination as he •said :

4 [Ml See you on the car, and then "I'll find and lick that man if he weighs tons? i