, 1879-03-15
LORD DUNDREARY PROPOSING.
How us Lost Ills Opportunity and Lost
Miss El,aillnKf flani.

How 11s Lost Ills Opportunity and Lost
Miss ChaHluR uRfiani.
"Any fellnt feclth ncrvouth when he knowth
he'th going to make an ath Of h1mself."
EThai's vewy twue,-l-1've often tl,cd tho be-
fore. But the fact is cyewy fellall 1othn't mako
m ath Of lIitnllclf, at least not quito such an
ath as I've done In my time. I-lon't mind
telling you, but 'pon my word now,-I-Ive
made au awful nth Of mythclf Oh thomc ocra-
thons. Yon don't btlierc It now, do youa H.
thought vou wouldn't,-but have now-atdAy.
Particularly with wrGard 10 women.
To say the twutll, Tint is my wcakneth-I
a'pose I'm what they call q lades' man. The
pwcttv cwcaciaxs like mel know they do
though they pwetcnl not to do 60. N-it's tho
way with some fcllahs. There WAS l!th late MaJes-
ty, George the Fourth. Iueyer thaw him nysllelf,
you KNOW, but I've heard 1o had sort Of way
with him that no woman could wcslst. They
used to call him cam-what is It'll a camcllIa-
no, camcl'lcopard, no-cllamelcon+ isn't til itAt
nttwncts people With Its cyes-u0, By the way
thnt-thats tic bwute that changes color-it
couldn't have been that, you know, ,-Georgus
yoe bsnr sned ss se anv 1she oa ee
cariy-vcwy cary In life, and then IT. was BY
n,istnke-no. cau-Chatnecon's not llhe word.
What a!.e dooth Is III Q, s.op,Iit osana with
words n begin wit.' i. Q, al awial lott r 1 70"
no wonder Dr.. Waits talked about thc-thc
busy B. Why, hrs more work than all the
west Of Tie alphabet. However. thc word le-
ns sa T sop y ~ Se,ss IT, os i oa n lie IT,
tlooary to mike certain. III hate to make
,nstakes--1 do-cspcvIaliy about tiImp1e mat-
Ter like this. Q, hcrr VIZ ure--B.. Basiiaca.
oeo9re vas KaS Sast a u , e g nsste ou xans
ruyul patace-thcy-thc might have becn-wc-
latIous--hut tlAts all-no, It Isn't Rasiltca-!t-
it's Basilisk-ycs, l'yc rot It now-irs Bath
nth. That's sl'at ILLS hlaiesty was-a Bathllith,
me see-whcrc was o. rckonlenlOer-or
weckolcct-whicti Is It'll Never MUD, l was
saving sl1ut was LADIES' mai.
wanted to tell you Of one successful adven.
chnw hatt--ut least, when l gay successful,
mean IL would hage been rs fnr ns was cor.
cesncd-but of course When two people are en-
gagcl-or watlier--when uue vi 'cul rants to he
engaged, one fclIaI, by himself can't uuEacs
tint he'll engage affections that arc otherwise
engaged. ny the way, what lot Of 'gaEcs that
wns in ono tnchtense, and yeti seeuis qulto
1rtlltlcss. Conc, thut's p~etty smart, that Is
for me.
have safl-wllen Was stoppLn, down a. Wock-
iuEllatu, with ihu WtIleys, Inst autumn, there
was a monsous to!ly rtrl ainyLug thcrc too.
don't mean TOO girls you know ly-only one
could one girl be stopping there tnvi What
doosid queer expressions there nsc in the En-.
glieh lanEuagel Stopping .ere two! Iris
vewy hid I'LL swear there was only one glrl,
al,a'a Lcrn M ,wo If e",,rse should havc known
lt-lct ne sea now, one Is BinEulaE, al.l tw.1 ts
plura1,-wcl!. you know, she adt singular gill
7 ar nnw-tint nrsnunts ior ft-onc f.ra t,,anv-
~ conrsr-f t,tr,n tinra wns t,yn snn.,wi,srr-
She Ind ycwy ouccr na,ur, afiss-Mlss-Stiss
Miss, no not Miss Mtssm!ss-l aswa5s miss the
han,Ethutis ft-Charlotte. Chni}i1Ipham.
,"'eto o,nnmhcr Chorinite. hecamsa tl'nv ca,,ed
hrr InttyNanu ous lsy NJ bweakfastN
I nade a stunnlnt, wlddlc-I euld-HWhy is
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