WANTED A DIVORCE.
A man with a nose and a melancholy appearance generally, entered Justice other day, and slamming a papeir-dowir" on the desk, he exclaimed :
"I submit the docs and demand a divorce !"' '*fj|§jS3i The Court loolspjPal; him in a puzzled way, and the stranger /continued : " Hump the papers/together mighty quick, for she's out after a dray to move the furniture !" " I can't give you a divorce," answered his Honor. "Here's the cash do am, mister," said the stranger, pulling out a small tin box full of shiuplasters, "and here's charges that will make your blood run cold !" «> He was steps he must take, and in and confusion lie went away, leaving the "docs" on the desk. The <sharg'esJ|pKl as follows : 1. Pulling hair, jawing, and kicked me. 2. More pulling haiis.,- ( ; 3. Kicked me Christmasj\Day, and I can prove it. 4. Tried to pizen me, and then jawed around. 5. Sitting clown cellar and reading dime novels, and then striking me when I talk to her like a father. 6. Teasing me to take her to the circus, and then getting mad and raining a mighty good dish pan.'-:-7. Jawing, kicking, fighting, threatening, making up faces, and demanding* money to buy ice-cream for her darned 6Jd,2 relashuns.- And so forth, to wit, many other things which I can ner'n a string. Gentlemen, grant" hae^-this divorce, and I will vote for yourun for alderman. ; " '
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 46, 14 June 1876, Page 2
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