Why Wife and I QuarreledG. W. Carleton, 1877 - 192 pages |
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Page 75 - And, lyin' together in silence, perhaps we will agree ; And, if ever we meet in heaven, I wouldn't think it queer If we loved each other the better because we quarrelled here.
Page 189 - Lord of heaven, scorns not to dwell With saints in their obscurest cell. 3 To thee may each united house, Morning and night, present its vows; Our servants there, and rising race, Be taught thy precepts, and thy grace.
Page 64 - And when we were done a-talkin', we both of us was mad. And the next that I remember, it started in a joke; But full for a week it lasted, and neither of us spoke. And the next was when I scolded because she broke a bowl; And she said I was mean and stingy, and hadn't any soul. And so that bowl kept pourin...
Page 66 - Never an hour went by me when she was out of. sight : She nursed me true and tender, and stuck to me day and night. And if ever a house was tidy, and ever a kitchen clean, Her house and kitchen...
Page 65 - I'll put it in the agreement, and take it to her to sign. Write on the paper, lawyer — the very first paragraph — Of all the farm and...
Page 64 - Was something concerning heaven — a difference in our creed: We arg'ed the thing at breakfast, we arg'ed the thing at tea; And the more we arg'ed the question the more we didn't agree. And the next that I remember was when we lost a cow: She had kicked the bucket for certain, the question was only — How?
Page 65 - There is a little hard money that's drawin' tol'rable pay: A couple of hundred dollars laid by for a rainy day; Safe in the hands of good men, and easy to get at ; Put in another clause there, and give her half of that. Yes, I see you smile, sir, at my givin...
Page 96 - Twas just then I heard a soft rapping Away at the half-open door — And then little Patience McAlpine Stepped shyly across the white floor. Says she :
Page 66 - I for a time was counted the luckiest man in town. Once when I had a fever — I won't forget it soon — I was hot as a basted turkey and crazy as a loon ; Never an hour went by me when she was out of. sight : She nursed me true and tender, and stuck to me day and night.
Page 95 - A good Christian man, on the whole ! Miss Parsons, a spinster of fifty, And long ago laid on the shelf, Had wedged herself next, and beside her 95 The meeting was soon called to order, The parson looked glum as a text ; — We silently stared at each other, And every one wondered, "What next...