WHO WAS BOSS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 126, 4 June 1910, Page 6

WHO WAS BOSS

Once on a time, runs a modern fable, a youth, about to embark on the sea of matrimony, went to his father and said: — "Father, who should be boss, I or the wife?" The old man smiled and said: — "Here are one hundred hens and a team of horses. Hitch up the horses, put the hens into the waggon, and wherever you find a man and his wife dwelling stop and make inquiry as to who is the boss. Wherever you find a woman running things, leave a hen. If you come to a place where a man is in control, give him one of the horses." After ninety-nine hens had been disposed of, he came to a house and made the usual inquiry. "I'm boss o' this farm," said the man. & ' , So the wife was called, and she affirmed her husband's assertion. "Take whichever horse you want," was the boy's reply. So the husband replied, "I'll take the bay." But the wife did not like the bay horse, and called her husband' aside and talked to him. He returned and said: — / "I believe I'll take the grey horse," "Not much," said the young man. "You get a hen."