WHEN WIVES WERE CHEAP"
There is living in Horsham, England; at the ago of eightv-iive, a remarkable ohi" On called Henry Burstow, by hard necessity a shoemaker, by taste a singer of songs- and a ringer of church-bells. Even' now ho can.sing nny one of four hundred, songs th it ho. knows by heart' Somo; account is given in "Country Life" of his small book of reminiscences, lately published A Horsham by subscription.. itr. Burstow occasionally reinforces, his memory with stories told him by his father, and so can go back to 1820, when a man sold his wife at the November fair, for 3s. Cd.! Ho himself can well remember that in ISI-t a lady known as "Pin-too Nanny" was.brought into the marketplace "with a halter round her neck and sold, for Ms. to. a man who parted with his .watch to raise .the price. Nanny changed hands again a year afterwards ami married one Jim Smith, with whom she lived happily ever afterwards!
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1402, 30 March 1912, Page 4
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165WHEN WIVES WERE CHEAP" Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1402, 30 March 1912, Page 4
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