No Sass for Her.
A great, sullen-looking, heavy-jawed, and brutal appearing man, 6ft tall, and weighing at least 2001b, came into a justice's office in company with a little bit of a thin, wan, pale, sad-eyed woman, who seemed to belong to that class of females who are " afraid to say boo to a goose."
"We want to have a sep'ration," said the man gloomily, while the frail little woman looked up with a mere suggestion of colour showing in her thin cheeks.
" A separation 7 " said the judge. "Do you mean a divorce ? "
" I guess so," replied the man sullenly. "Me and her can't seem to git along no more."
" No, we can't, jedge " (the voice of the sorrowful little woman cut the air with a sound suggestive of the skilful cracking of a whip lash), "we don't get along at all, and I ain't afeerd to say why, nuther. Here of late he don't wanter do one solitary single thing I tell f im to do, and I've had jest enough o' his sass, an 1 yesterday I up an' tuk a hooppole an' gin him one good dressin' down that I guess he won't f orgit right off, and he's been talking ' sep'ration ' and ' divorcement ' ever sense, and Lawd knows I'm willin 1 for either or both. The man don't walk the airth who kin be sassy to me, no he don't ! Not much ! "
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Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 6 November 1890, Page 42
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237No Sass for Her. Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 6 November 1890, Page 42
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