SHE DIDN'T DARE DO IT.
The other day a man and woman came to a sudden halt on Grand River street, and tho woman dropped a basket she was carrying and called out: "I will! I will! I'll not live with you another day !" " Ycm' 11 leave me, will you!'" he calmly asked. "Yes, I will!" "When'r" "Now—right off—this minute !" "You'll go away?" "Yes, sir !" " I wouldn't if I were you."
" But I will, and I defy you to prevent me .' I have suffered at your hands as long as I can put up with it !" "Oil, I shan't try to stop 3'ou," he quietly replied. " I'll simply report to the police that my wife has mysteriously disappeared. They will want your description, and I shall give it. You wear No. 7 shoes ; you have an extra largo mouth ; you walk stiff in your knees ; your noso turns up at the end; hair the color of a brick terra cotta, the newest in fashion ; eyes rather on tho squint; voice partakes of- ." " Wretch ! you wouldn't dare do that!" she screamed. " I certainly will, and tho description will go into all tho papers." They glared at eacli other for a minute like cats. Then ho -walked on. She looked up and down the sCrcct, gritted her tcetli together, and then picked up her basket and followed on after. He had what they call the deadwood on her. —Detroit Free Press.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3699, 23 May 1883, Page 4
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