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"Woman'," remarked Mr. 'Gooseling, "is Heaven's best gift to man, but whether it means a married woman or not, I anit not so certain. Now, there's my mie; I've known a good many women" in my time, and I don't think I'd be willing to change her for any woman I ever met, saw, or heard of. I'm willing to Baku as many concessions as most men, but X really think there is a limit that any reasonable woman ought to observe. IN'ofc that my wife is not as reasonable as any other married woman, mind you. for she is. 'But there are times when she makes /, me doubt the strict accuracy of the timehonoured maxim I have quoted. "Mow. for instance, the other day i , j was hanging un the holly and mistletoe- '-$ in the house, like a man lias a right to do - ". ' : i| on his own premises, and, just assies :' ;*-S sometimes do, I put my finger• *jfcj&re -■€ ;■*>« _y had no business to put it, and hit ? ttwitis - f-g ' the hammer. ; ■■% "'Well,' said I to myself, though my *| wife was sewing by the window on tfca -i other side of the room, ' I'll bet I'm tfaa \\ biggest idiot in creation.' '*;; *£ "All of; which I iiad a perfect right "to say; but ivy wife looks up from her work, ~ and says she : > ; -■ '•' William:," saye she, ■doß*fc.youijHrar.... enough about; the ethics of _gambh>g to : '•; know that you have no light tohfrm « ■. v ' certainty?' V /'.That's what,she said;' and, rsc dearths ■■■ crrcumsiaiwes, vital on earth, t-oui I 1 *&r - but Tiothing, andtbjriiVija^^^l^^,- ; . ' "'.'. ' ■ V .■ '-'-■' ' A ip? :;; :'- ' K '-'■'^!i^JiiSiom '.' " ' •■ , , ■, - '*::''■"& " " .:' w ■,■■ -,■;. ii\ ..'-.....• ''..'.. ■'.■.""' ",.;.'. : ..-■:-