A HUSBAND WHO LAUGHED.
Several men were making purchases in a Michigan avenue store yeaterday, when a man who had been looking out of the window for gome time turned and said “ Well, that’s a bad case.’ «< What is it ?” inquired two or three at once. . , “ Well, I don’t know who is the husband of this woman out here in the waggon, but if I were he I’d go across the street and smash (that fellow’s head.” “Why?” .. « Why, because ho haa been working like a bsaver for the last half-hour to get up a flirtation with her." At this one of the men began to chuckle. Then the chuckle ran into a laugh, and finally ho had to sit down. « What’s the matter with you ?” was asked. « Why, I’m—l’m that woman’s husband.’’ “ Are you ? And are you laughing over the flirtation ?' «I 1 can’t help it,” he said, as he went off into another fi;. “Just think of him a flirting and a strutting up and down and a doing the purty when the old woman out there has boon stone blind for seven years—ha ha! hft ! ”
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2404, 19 December 1881, Page 4
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