A ROMANCE PROM REAL LIFE.
The following story is told of a tvrostorey brick house in the suburbs of Boston whose doors and windows are nailed up, and which has never been occupied :—“ Nearly eighty years ago a young man built this house for his bride, intending to mortgage it and pay for it gradually, as . his worldly goods increased, to all of which she agreed. When the wedding day was appointed, the trousseau ready, and the house finished, he took the lady out from Boston to inspect it. After going over the house, he presented her with a deed of it for a wedding gift, Knowing his circumstances, she was astonished that he had actually paid for it. He explained that, buying a ticket in a lottery, he had drawn the first prize, which just covered the cost of the house. The Puritan maiden protested she would not have a house obtained by gambling, and refused the deed. His arguments were of no avail 5 she re l mained obdurate, When they left the house he locked the door and threw the key into the brook near by. The next day he boarded up the windows, and only the spiders and mice have ever occupied *it. The man never married j he became rich, but is a wanderer on the face of the earth, The woman never married—-she is still living, poor and an invalid.”
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Kumara Times, Issue 1444, 14 May 1881, Page 2
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236A ROMANCE PROM REAL LIFE. Kumara Times, Issue 1444, 14 May 1881, Page 2
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