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Kumara Times, Issue 1101, 10 April 1880, Page 4

< It may not be known (says "Atticus" in the Melbourne Leader) that John MomBey, the prize-fighter, who was elected a member of Congress, was a man who owed everything in his life to his wife. She taught him to read and write, and may be sold to have fairly "worried" him up the ladder. Every night she made him spell for an hour, and Bays in her memoir—a very curious book, by-the-way:~»The morning after John beat Heenan he was sore and bandaged, and blind of an eye, but I made him sit up in his bed, and propped him with pillows until he had Baid his lesson. ' What is the use of all this study, Susie,' he would B »y« * To go to Congress, John' «Oh, that s your lay out for me, is it ? Well, we'll go to Congress}' and he did." This is »lesson of pluck and affection which more refined people may not blush to learn.