To Cure a Husband.
A woman whom her husband used frequently to beat went to a cunning man to inquire how she might cure him of his barbarity. The sagacious soothsayer heard her complaint, and after pronouncing some hard words, and using various gesticulations, while he filled a phial with a coloured liquid, desired her, whenever her husband was in a passion, to take a mouthful of the liquor and keep it in her mouth for five minutes. ' The woman, quite overjoyed at so simple a remedy, striecly followed the counsel given to her, and, by her silence, escaped the usual chastisement. The contents of the bottle being at last expended, she returned to the cunning roan, and anxiously bpgged to have another possessed of the same virtue. "Fool," said the man, "there was nothing in the bottle but brown sugar and water. When your husband is in a passion, hold your tongue,' and my life for it, he- will not lay a finger upon you."
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Otago Witness, 14 December 1893, Page 49
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166To Cure a Husband. Otago Witness, 14 December 1893, Page 49
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