An Expensive Wife.
Old gentleman in a beer garden near the railroad depot, waiting for his wife to arrive on the next train, complaining to himself — "Here I have already drank six glasses of Pilsener, and (looking at his watch) the train will not beherefor anhourtocome. This will compel me to drink six more glasses. Its terrible. What an expensive wife I have got 1" Mr and Mrs Jones were starting for church. " Wait, dear," said the lady, " I've forgotten something ; won't you go up and get my goats off the bureau?" "Your goats," replied Jones ; " what new-fangled thing's that?" "I'll show you," remarked the wife, and she sailed upstairs and down again with a pair of kids on her hands. " There they are," said she. " Why, I call these things kids," said the surprised husband, "Oh, do you," snapped the wife. "Well, so did I once, but they are so old now, I'm ashamed to call them anything but goats." Then they went on to church. The next day Jones's wife had a half-dozen pairs of new gloves in a handsome lacquered box of the latest design.
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 33, 19 January 1884, Page 4
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188An Expensive Wife. Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 33, 19 January 1884, Page 4
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