A SOLDIER'S WEDDING.
"I don't' know whether I an. married o> not," replied an old soldier, in answer t.. the Auckland Magistrate, who was examin ing the applications for old age pensions He went on to explain (the Auckland cor respondent of the "Otago Daily Times' stales) that he had a difference with his al ieged better half a few months after tho cere mony. and they were taken before thcolonel of his regiment. It came out tl:-.r the lady had some two years before swor.' to love, honour and obey another, "and." said the old soldier, "the colonel chase ' her." The colonel must have been a bi: of a martinet, and certainly had somewha unconventional ideas of settling matrimonii'disputes. The applicant never heard of the fickle one from that day to this.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 3, 26 January 1899, Page 4
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133A SOLDIER'S WEDDING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 3, 26 January 1899, Page 4
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