OCR Text |
Show How IT Happesed. Sho led him to a sofa, and in a deep bass voieo called him her soul's idol, and inquired in-quired what his monthly income was. Seeing his gaze fixed on her boa-con-elrictor-like- mouth, she remarked: "Darling, I see you notice my large and beautiful potato-trap: let me ex plain to you tbe reason of its unusual aize. When I was quite a child I was flaying on papa'u cellar door; it gave way; 1 was precipitated down into tho basement, aud caught by the mouth on a projecting meat-hook, which ripped up my face and extended ex-tended my mouth several inches." Witb his eyes full of sympathetic tears, he rose from the sola, and replied, re-plied, as he made toward the door, "My angel, you aro perhaps mistaken, mis-taken, Probably, in the excitement of that awlul moment, you left your mouth down in the basement and accidentally brought up the cellar. We shall meet again in a better Wurid. Adieu." Schuectady Gazette. |