SHE DIDN’T DARE DO IT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1116, 9 June 1883, Page 3

SHE DIDN’T DARE DO IT.

The other day a man and a woman came to a sudden halt on Grand River street, and the woman dropped a basket she was carrying and called out: ‘ I will! I will! I’ll not live with you another day ?’ ‘ You’ll leave me, will you V he calmly asked. 1 Yes, I will !’ ‘ When ?’

‘ Now—right off—this minute !’

‘ You’ll go away ?. 1 Yes, sir 1’ ‘ I wouldn’t if I were you,’

‘ But I will, and I defy you to prevent me ! I have suffered at your hands as long as I can put up with it!’ ‘ Oh, I shan’t try to stop you,’ he quietly replied. ‘ I’ll simply report to the police that my wife has mysteriously disappeared. They will wanl your description, and I shall give it. You wear No 7 shoes ; you have an extra large mouth ; you walk stiff in your knees ; you nose turns up at the end ; hair the color of brick terracotta, the newest in fashion ; eyes rather on the Squint; voices partakes of——.’ • Wretch! you wouldn’t dare do that!’ she screamed.

‘ I certainly will, and the description will go into all the papers.’ They glared at each other for a minute like eats.

Then he walked on. She looked up and down the street, gritted her teeth together, and then picked up her basket and followed on after, He had what they call the deadwood on her.— Detroit Free Press.