PETER BUNDY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2561, 22 March 1877, Page 2

PETER BUNDY.

-L Peter. Bund^'/j^hp/'liMjJiselOll^???*^' only two weeks, has left his wife. 3un3y is a little many; and, hja.-irife..we^hs two hundred and forty pounds, "and was the relict of the. late Seth^ot^.,About tea, day» after, marriage^ Bundy"wasaurprU«ftd cm awakening:iri the morning -_to»*- find!|^ua better half sitting up. in, bed,. cryirig.,as^f her heart would'break.'::Astonislied i ;h,e asked' the causa qf her aomwr, but,-re-ceiring no reply, he began.'* tq .surmise that there-'must'be ■ som^?ww»*tf :ion .her mind ;whrch;; she' -withbbl*^'ftoi» "him and which 1 iras . the cauW iitf^her anguish,- "so he -'remarked- til- Mrs 1' "B. that as .they, were married sKe 5 ought to tell him the cause of her grief, so that, ;if possible, he. might lessen;it. '"After i considerable, coaxing,, he elicited the fol-lowing-from her-^r'^Lastnighil, dreamed I was.single.and .as*.l,walked^ througtji street I, came.tp a shop .with a sign in front advertising husbands for sale.7 Thinking-it curious» I enjefed, and ranged-.-along the wall on eithir were^-tnen with prices *• affixed! „to them—'"Such" beautiful men— gomi /for one thousand dollars, somtf^for*«fif» hundred dollars, and so on toouFhundred and fifty dollars. And as I had npt.ib^ amouqt, I could" np^urphajje.;". to console her, B. placed -hii : arw lovingly around her and-jwlwd, -"JLnd' did you..see pi»y men likp mp" thereP" " Oh/'y'esl" she replied.-'-lotsiik«iyou"|. they were tied up iv bunches like nspar*-' gus, and sold for ten cents per bunch." Bundy got up and went to ask his lawyer if he had sufficient grounds for a divorce. —American paper.