Worse Than She Was Taken For.
Some years ago in North Carolina a negro man and woman went to a Justice of the Peace to get married. Two or three weeks after this, the man came baok and said : ' Marse Justice, you must unmarry us.' ' I can't unmarry you,' waß the reply. ' You must.' ' I can't. 1 ' But you must.' ' I can't. You must go before a court and get a divorce.' ' Boss, you got me into all this trouble and you must get me out of it.' ' 1 can't do it. You took that woman for better or wor^L.' ' I know that, but then she is a d d sight worße than I took her for.'
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Observer, Volume xi, Issue 667, 10 October 1891, Page 15
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117Worse Than She Was Taken For. Observer, Volume xi, Issue 667, 10 October 1891, Page 15
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