Just Like a Woman.
In the Nineteenth Century some fresh extracts are given from " Pkpy's Diary." The old gentleman once gave hi* wife a black-eye. This is how lie has described the occurrence :
- Going to bed betimes last night we waked betimes, and from our people being forced to take the key to go out to light a candle I was very angry, and began to find fault with my wife for not commanding her servants as she ought. Thereupon she giving me some cross answer, I did strike her over her left eye such a blow as the poor wretch did cry out, and was in great pain; but yet her spiiit was such as to endeavour to bite and scratch me. But I crying with her made her leave crying and search for butter and pa'sely, and friends presently one with another ;, and I up, vexed at my heart to think what I had done, for she was forced to lay a poultice or something to her eye all day, and is black, and the people of the hou?e observed it.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 9 January 1892, Page 3
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183Just Like a Woman. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 9 January 1892, Page 3
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