"THE BEATING OF MY OWN WIFE."
AIB-—" THI BBATIKO OP MT OWIT HFJJtT." I'd melted all my wages,. Ere of beer I had a fill, - Fora bob I asked the Missus .
—There's a way where there's a will: She refused, I Xook the poker, Tk« neighbors never stirred, 1 Tor the beating of my own; wife Was the only sound they heard. A sntfak blowed to the Crushers, I was lugged afore the Beak— But I know'd that it was nothing: The old gal had her squeak; Tkey fined me forty shillings, I paid it like a bird. And the beating of my own wife, Perhaps, that night was heard. But rig&s is rights no longer; Cross swears hell eat his hat, Or jolly dog*, as wops their gals, Shall suffer from the Cat. If that brutal measure passes, Take William Sikes his word, That the b«ating of his own wife Will aot again be heard. —Punch.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1917, 24 February 1875, Page 4
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157"THE BEATING OF MY OWN WIFE." Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1917, 24 February 1875, Page 4
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