Judge — May 26, 1883 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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rth to many a store fast steaks The hea wakes; The world its worried aspect takes By half.past seven. VEREKER'S COURTSHIP. When Mrs. Vereker was a fair and bloom: ing maiden and Mr. Vereker was an eligibl young man, they both went through probationary period which comes to young couple as certainly as the 1m and which is known as courting. —V loved the embryo Mrs, V., and ¢ him. Oh, those happy ante-nuptial days, when the pleading lover shows none of the angles which matrimony will sharpen to a razor-like and when the vieldin has developed no symptoms of the which is one day to make « sj It was love's young dream with the Verckers a few years 1 very happy they were over it. pw Chara—the lady who is at present Vereker—had a bosom Criend and inti », known as Belinda Bushee. No prop- ly regulated young lady can get along with outa bosom friend and ‘intimate into wh sympathetic ears she ur the treasures of her overburdened and if, on ordin- ary occasions, such a friend is 1 ry. sl rises to th ty of indispensability when a young lady Is be ed the attentions of Belinda heard at Clara’s ear at first opinion on the to be attached to every hand-squeeze: even reviewed Clara's conduct, and was pleased to express her unqualified appre Tion of her behavior of that. never te bo for- gotten occasion when Mr. V. snatched his first kiss. And on those occasions when propriety dictated the presence party, at drives or other excursions, that third party always took the form of Belinda —most devoted of friends, discreetest of chaperone: At length the eventful words were spoken, With emotion str ng in his manly bh and an unconquerable bashfulness weighting ¢, Mr. Verekei h managed forth the few words nece e Clara acquainted with his d ad_been nted with it long but custom and tl tioned the wise precaution of waiting till the swain has irrevocably committed himself in 1 for t words had Cl - waite he instant they were breathed she yielded a coy « nt which she vored to tone down te the proper de- gree of reluctance, for she well knew that maidens should not be rapturous on such som THE JUDGE. sIX AND HALF- The milkman drives his rapid cart At bulf-past six o'clock; The workman to bis toil doth start, Rousing the drowsy block Tue topers take their morning sticks; The city, in her fac Opes window eyes; the two lights mix At balf-past six casions as these, and then she flew to tell the whole story to the confidante. After dinner that day Vere It was fortunately winter, the weather was well adapted to his purpose, for in his then state of mind he would fully on the 4th y tions of this kind were uncommon with Vereker even the readily condoned Clara, who rec of his love for her to annihilate him with the fact that she had pt bottled up in her ¥ V We never told you of it, you put your ring on i . with admirable gnized in them only evidences though she now persist- any eccentricities on he part to old ry all was lovely ; how vou came to reker is madder than ever. A CRUEL JEST. Duet know the differ reker had a ring, an_ heirloom x great loominess, which had typi ink which bound together the aifec- tions of untold ‘The difference is this,” With satire of a Junius, “The moon hath silvery quarters, de rive and amid the shades of night he managed wer of his belove He struck the g accountable way 1ore important and the result was that the eirelet ufections of countless Verekers 1 tenderly on the t Belinda Busbec ection of hands on, each tryi a tender-hearted _g n draw the biggest crowd with some- consciousness of ” She knew how eruelly the naller than anything such a mistake would wound the = ities of the chivalrous Vereker. * the v yall exclaim and the lover, pene was right, and all went in te solitude of their nothing should b » article but doc actly come to the scratch, the breach of prom slipped the ring on Cla shea feel it hy ying as it used to do, and that strikes us ; they have been married e when for ** slave” Turk Southern Educational Monthly heads its column with the subscriber with your renew ‘e'll send him by book post with the as live mail m cident of their e1 comicbooks.com