I beg, dear sir, you’ll give her two.”
“Nay, then,” said Syntax, “you shall see!”
And straight he gave the lady three.
The lady, blushing, thanked him too,
And in soft accents said, “Adieu.”
PRENTICEANA.
The following epigrammatic hits are from the pen of George D. Prentice, the late distinguished editor of the “Louisville Journal”:
We once had a female correspondent who wrote, “When two hearts are surcharged with love’s electricity, a kiss is the burning contact, the wild leaping flame of love’s enthusiasm.” This is certainly very pretty, but a flash of electricity is altogether too brief to give a correct idea of a truly delicious kiss. We agree with Byron that the “strength” of a kiss is generally “measured by its length.” Still, there should be a limit, and we really think that Mrs. Browning, strong-minded woman as she is, transcends all reasonable limits in her notion of a kiss’s duration. Why, she talks in her “Aurora Leigh” of a kiss