BETTING ,O,N A CERTA^TY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11818, 16 November 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)

BETTING ON A CERTAINTY.

• Woman,* remarked Mr Gbi&eling, * is- Heaven's , best gifi' to man, bnt whether it means a married , woman or no^ Tarn not so cetta'in^ 7f . „ , ,; \ . -h j*■ Nowy there's my wife. II 11I 1 v 6 a good many women in my time, and J. : don't think I'd be willing to change her for**ny wowan I Sver met,, saw,": or heatd of. We have been; married twenty years, and in all that ; time we never had a cross, #>s that we fidp't. *e'fb?e we had f many more; it is the only' way td' getalOng with a woman.. Td rather, yield,.. a dQfcwlt{meß^diy.Lttian'try,.tb eaMhe kind o> meal, iny wife, can;: have broughton the table^when shefs » mind to.. I, am 'wiUwK -to ..make as ..many conces- %& Wm?i™£ KutitteaUythink thew^w^iw^ff^^v * ny rtasonabltf WOmail, ought, Uj> observe. - Not that my wife is, not as rei»sona.^le. as any other^ married woqaan, for she is. But tbe& are^timeß when she makes me doubt tbe stfictr-iaccuracy of the time-honoured 1 -maxim I- hive- quoted. Now, instance! was^oin^r 1 something, or other around $o*;hou«8, as a man hie * v fi^ 'to'Vfariiiniie,' hip. own * premises jjjjsV^as^men. .sometimes, do, I pot my . fijDgeruiwhVra-I had ho business to, and hit it in a -crack with the hammer.a ; . J « Well,' said Ito myself^ thoagh my wife was sewing by the window on the oiher side of the room, ' I'll 'het I'm the biggest fool in , the country.' l . All of which I bad a perfect right to s»y. But my wife looks up lrom her work, and says she : .« William, don t you know enough about the ethics of gambling to know that you h*ve no right to bet' on a ceri tainty. 1 'That's what she said, and in the circumstances what on earth could I say but nothing. , And that's what I said.; Bnt I droves that nail a bang with the bamiuer that drove it olean over its head and broke a , pane; of glass that cost four, shillings and sixpence to replace. "> \' ■ '■- ,''*..'•