NEVER INTERFILE BETWEEN MAN AND WIFE.

Colonist, Volume XXVI, Issue 3481, 14 June 1882, Page 3

NEVER INTERFILE BETWEEN MAN AND WIFE.

/[From the PMladelphitfEcliq.)'

The other night old man Wickleand! his wife, walking home from ai .''mite; society," engaged in a quarrel. " I'm I not going f put.. ( Wiith you. any more,! Samue!,"; "eaiid, 'Mifp " You! are too bid a man to b'ufc up the way; you did tp-uighr. The idea of an old ■ man who has got rheumatism so bad that he can't pull his socks on mornings, going to a mite meeting and cavorting and romping as you have done to-night. I cay it's a shame." " I may havb rheumatism," replied the old miui,,♦' but s l,hayn't got dyspepsia. I don't growl and snap at everybody." '*. I won't1 walk! with a man who acta liky a rhinoceros." " How does the rhinocerous a'-t?'' asked the old man, .thinkingtocafch her ion natural history. " Acts like a fool; that's how ihe acts," said Mrs Wickle, walking ' rapidly : away, ;J|aving him:: eeyej^b paces behind. He finally caught up, just as a young man came along. " You are walking pretty fast," said the old gentleman. His wife didn't say anything. " It's clouding up," he remarked; " must be going to rain." The old lady made no reply, but the young man tbdfc} in ; flies!!:situation.1 " You old villain," he exclaimed to Mr Wickle, " what '[. do ' fo\i '■] mean byattempting to thrust your company on a lady who does not want you ? It's becoming too frequent for ladies to be insulted on the streets by loafers. Get back!" The young mau Btruck at Wickle. Mrs Wickle clubbed her umbrella and exclaimed : " That's my husband," and struck the young man an undignified blow. The old man, encouraged by his wife's "strike for the union," jumped, on. the young man. and held him while the rattling ribs of the umbrella fell oti the youth's head with a noise like hailstones. " Samuel, nobody can break up our domestic felicity," said the wife at'ter the battle. " No dear," answered fclamuel. " When a man tries to destroy the domestic happineas of my household, he catches the consolidated power of my wrath."