what on earth is the use of giving a man coals who has nothing to cook or giving him blankets when he hasn t a bed or giving him soup when he requires substantial food � like sending them when wanting a shirt why not give em a trifle of money as i do when i think they deserve it and let them purchase what they think best t why � because your wouldn t see their names flourishing in print on the church door � that s the reason really mr i hope you don t mean to that i wish to see my name in print on the interrupted miss � i hope said mr putting in another word and getting another glance certainly not replied i dare say you wouldn t mind seeing it in writing though in the church register � eh i register i what register inquired the lady gravely why the register of marriages to be sure replied at the sally and glancing at mr thought he should have fainted for shame and it is quite impossible to imagine what effect the joke would have had upon the lady if dinner had not been at that moment announced mr with an effort of gallantry offered the tip of his little finger miss accepted it with maiden modesty and they proceeded in due state to the dinner table where they were d� a � sketches by the room was very e dinner very good and uie little party in spirits the conversation pretty general and when mr had extracted one or two cold observations from his neighbour and had taken wine with her he to acquire confidence rapidly the was removed mrs drank four glasses of port on ihe ea of being a nurse just then and miss took about the same number of on the plea not wanting any at all at the ladies retired to the great gratification of mr el who had been and frowning at his wife for half an hour previously � mrs never to observe until she had been pressed to take her ordinary which to avoid giving trouble she generally did at once what do you of tier s inquired mr mr in an under tone i on her with enthusiasm already replied mr pray let us drink be ladies � aid the reverend mr the ladies r id mr his glass in ike fulness of his confidence felt as if he could make love to a ladies off hand ah i said mr i remember when i was a young man � fill your glass i have this emptied it � � then again i will said ihe action to the word i remember resumed mr when i was a man with what a strange compound of feelings i used to drink toast and how i used to eveiy was an was that were married mildly d mr l so and a precious i must have been ever to have thought so at sl but you know i under the and most circumstances possible what were they if one may inquired asked who had heard tiie on an average twice a week for the last six months mr listened attentively in tbe hope of picking up some suggestion that might be to him in liis new undertaking i spent my wedding eight in a back kitchen by way of a beginning in a kitchen chimney ejaculated how dreadful yes it wasn t very pleasant replied the host the et is s � and mother liked me well enough as an individual bat liad a to my a husband � ou see hadn any money in lose days and they had and bo they wanted to pick up else however we managed to discover the state of s affections somehow i used to meet at some mutual friends parties at we danced together and talked and and all that sort of i used to like nothing so well as sitting by her we didn t talk so much then but i remember i used to have a great notion oi looking at out of extreme of my eye � i got very and and began to write verses and use oil at last t bear it any longer and after had walked up aud down the sunny side of oxford street in tight boots for a w� k � and a hot it was too � in ae hope � f meeting her i down and wrote a letter and tm to manage to me i wanted to hear lier man her own mouth i said i liad to my perfect that i t without that if she didn t have me i had n ii my mind to take a or mis ng or bo as to ff in some way or other wed a pound and d to give her the note � t tn tiie reply in who had tlie is to get a general one very miserable � possibility of an � early that from the duty � he � implored me to ad find ont somebody and au that sort said he could en no of me ma and t ed me be in a part gardens ai eleven not to i t go of said lie � i did there the ne in order at we � � f miserable and ty engaged we � thai is to say change about four letters we used to say in em i and i used to an the or the place went em in this way and we got of day at as our d to such a and as been raised too on n secret arranged to at the previous night we early in the were to to her pathetic she to d gentleman s and ts with her tears and i le old lady and her and use my handkerchief as much 