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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2325, 4 June 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Widows seldom come out second besb in an encounter, but occasionally this happens, and the following is a : case in point :—A. few years ago there was an'exceedingly attractive specimen of the tribe living ; in Birmingham. Her age was abouti4o, and she had a beautiful daughter nged 20, who was engaged to a softheaded young man with a rich father. The widow,' however, fell in love with the , youth, and won him herself and the girl then.covered the old male parent with daughterly kisses and attentions until he married her. She made him a good wife, too, and when he died three years later he left all his property to her and her two infant children. Then the young , lady went for vengeance.- She stopped the soft-headed son's supplies, and he had to take a billet at £2 a week, while the exwidow, who had gone through her own property in the blissful days of early married life, now cooks two attenuated chops for breakfast, brushes her own boots, patches her husband's trousers, and regrets tho day, when she cut her daughter out in the affections of a clerk caruing 40s a week, - >