Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — A Gallant Lover’s Reward. [ARTICLE]

A Gallant Lover’s Reward.

“I declare,” she exclaimed, as he assisted her to put on a pair of new gloves, “it is too provoking. Ths gloves fit me perfectly except that the fingers are too long. I think my hand is deformed. The fingers are too short.” “On the contrary,” he replied, “your hand is perfect, the majority of hands are deformed, however, the length of the fingers being disproportionate to the size*>f the other part, and all gloves are. made to meet that defect. ' If this glove had been made for a perfect hand it would have been an admirable fit. The proportions of your hand are such as would almost start the , statue of the Greek Slave into life with envy.” ! | “George,” she murmured, with a rosy blush suffusing her cheeks and a bright light in her eyes, “I believe you asked to kiss me last night and I refused. You—you —a —may do so now.” And* George did, and the canary in the cage twittered, and the cannel in the grate glowed and the clock ticked tunefully on the~mantel-piece and modestly kept its hands on its face while the osculating exercise was in progress. Ah! there are some verdant and flowery oases in the desert of life, after aIL Boston Courier.