AN OBSTINATE WOMAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 941, 7 May 1881, Page 3

AN OBSTINATE WOMAN.

The following story is told of a twostorey brick hotise in the suburb? of Boston, whose doors and windows are nailed up, and which has never been occupied Nearly 80 years ago a young man built it 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 far 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 net take a house obtained by gambling, and refused the deed. His arguments were of no avail* she remained 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 ; 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.”