TOO MUCH MARRIED.
A quarter of a century ago a young doctor left Scotland for Australia to better his fortune. He had a wife who, being possessed of ample means in her own right, refused to embark with him, and stayed at Home with her two children. For some time after he arrived in Australia he kept up a correspondence with Ms wife, but she still refusing to come he dropped all communication with her. In the new land, he rapidly acquired a lucrative practice, and there became the father of another family, who grew up quite ignorant of the fact that they had brothers on the other side of the globe. When the boys in Scotland reached man’s estate they persuaded their mother to go
with them to Anilra J la iff search '<bf "HOT long-lost father. They found him, and wer3 rather startled to discover that he had a second wife and family. Wife, No. 1 entreated him to desert wife No. 2, and he did so for a short time. But presently the blandishments of the second spouse prevailed, and he returned to her. The Scotchwoman, however, is not going to allow herself to be deprived of her husband and, what is more important, Ids large fortune, and she has therefore called in the assistance of the law.—Exchange.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 907, 21 January 1882, Page 3
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221TOO MUCH MARRIED. Temuka Leader, Issue 907, 21 January 1882, Page 3
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