A STORY OF MARRIED LIFE IN AMERICA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 65, 8 May 1869, Page 3

A STORY OF MARRIED LIFE IN AMERICA.

T!;ere , comes rather a good* story of married life' froni x America. The^hero of it set out for" s Arkansas, leaving his wife at home. The lady, weary of the separation, wrote to her husband, entreating his return. He begged that she would be patient, and pointed out that his' absence, though irksome to both» was good for their mutual interests. - Six months elapsed — then a whole year. At length, one fine evening, the, husband returned and knocked at the door of his house, expecting a royal welcome. "Itisl, mv adored one. 1 * "Who? you?" saicl the lady. "Don't you know your husband ? " Was the reply. " I have no husband," was the lady's rejoinder. " What do you mean ? " cried the man. " Since you would not return," Was tbe reply,. "I sought and obtaineda bill of divorce." " But "—the husband began to answer. " Withdraw, sir," said the lady, stopping him ; " it is not right tlmt a stranger should come here at this late hour." " Ungrateful ! " "No recriminations." " Why," continued the man, " I come to lay the fortune I have made at your feet. " G-et out ! " was the only reply — " I do not mean to be compromised.' 1 So the man departed, and — fury in his heart — returned to Arkansas. After he had been there some time, he had a chat one evening with General W , who said to him, " How is it that a man of your position is not married ? " " I do not know any woman here wl»o would suit me," no replied. " But there must be lots in your native place,* 1 retorted the G-eneral. " You are right," said our friend ; " I will go and see to-morrow." He set out, and six weeks afterwards he returned with a wife leaning on his arm. "_4h!" said the general, "you have done tiie deed, then; you have married." " Par- . don ; I have re-raarried." " How ! were you a widower ? " "Nothing of the kind." " How, then ?- 1 do not understand you." " I have re-married my wife, who had obtained a bill of divorce against me." I courted her as if we had never known each other." " Man ied twice to the same woman ! " cried the general, "You are incorrigible ! " It is a pretty romance, and may be worth reading when tlie papers are full of the number of cases with which the Divorce Court is choked.