CURING THE OLD WOMAN.
An old man up in Connecticut had a poor cranky bit of a wife, who regularly once a week got up in the night and invited the family to see her die. She gave away her things, spoke her last words, and made her peace with heaven, and then about eight o'clock she get up in her usual way and going at her duties as if nothing had happened. The old man got sick of it finally, and went and bought a coffin, a really nice cashmere shroud, a wreath of immortelles, with " Farewell Mary Ann," and a handful of silver plated screws. Laying -the screwdriver beside the collection, he invited her to holler die once more. "Do it," said he, "and in you go, and this farewell business is over." Mary Ann is at this moment making cakes for a large and admiring family, while they dry apples in the coffin up in the garret.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 383, 3 September 1875, Page 4
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160CURING THE OLD WOMAN. Globe, Volume IV, Issue 383, 3 September 1875, Page 4
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