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Observer, Volume 2, Issue 35, 14 May 1881, Page 373

No man is so easily deluded as a man in love In that state, if he lias a Lad fit of it, tlie ordinary man is just as blind as a mole and as stupid as an old owl. A young man in Aiickland was engaged to marry a young lady, and, not being wealthy, her father undertook to pay for all the furniture. The father was in Wellington, and wrote to the prospective son-in-law saying, " You buy the furniture, pay for it, and send me the bills ; I'll see that they are all right. " So the young man at once appropriated the daughter and speculated very liberally in furniture. Then the old man came up from Wellington, and was handed the bills for the furniture. Well, that deceitful old father-in-law just took those bills, put them in his pocket, and quietly winked at his son-in-law, saying, "I'll see that these are kept all right !" That is all that old man ever intended to do. Now that young husband wants to know if he can be divorced from his father-in-law, on the plea of obtaining a son-in-law under false pretences, He is quite satisfied that the clamor against mothers-in-laAv is a shameful injustice, and says he has a good mind to write to the papers and show that fathei'-in-laws can be the most fraudulent and designing old schemers that anyyoung man canbe in danger of.