Selling a Wife for a Shilling
In Upper Heiduk, in Silesia, so a German newspaper avers, a working man sold his wife for a term of two years to an acquaintance for a shilling. The wife lived with her new partner in harmony, wheu one day the lawful husband, thinking he had surrendered her too cheaply, called upon the man and demanded a further sum of fifteen shillings. The j lady, he said had a set of beautiful teeth. He had forgotten that, and he considered fifteen shillings a small sum under the circumstances. The '* man ia possession" demurred, aud the husband sought the aid of the law. The authorities, it appears, pro- i uounced that as he had contracted himself out of his legal rights for two years, and for a shilling, he was not entitled to any further amount.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 13, 17 July 1890, Page 3
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141Selling a Wife for a Shilling Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 13, 17 July 1890, Page 3
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