CURED HER AT LAST. An o’d man up la Connecticut had a poor cracky bit of a wife, who regularly, ones a week, got up in the night and invited the family in to sse her dia. She gave away her things, spoke her last words, and made her peace with heaven, and than atont eight o’clock she got up in her usual way and disappointed everybody by going at her household duties as If nothing had happened. The old man get sick of It finally, and wont and bought a oeffin, a real nice cashmere shroud, a wreath of immortelles, with * Farewell, Mary Ann,’ worked In, a handful cf silver-plated screws. Laying the screwdriver bosldo the collection, he invited her to holler 1 die ’ once more. ‘Do it,' said ha, ‘and in you go,’ and this farewell business Is over.’ Mary Ann is at this moment cooking buckwheat cakes (or a large and admiring family while they dry apples In the oeffin up In the garret, —" Oxford Torchlight.”
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2602, 9 August 1882, Page 3
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169Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2602, 9 August 1882, Page 3
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