HIS SPECIAL TREAT.
'- ' ■♦ The vicar of an East End parish is telling a queer' little story that illustrates the relations between husband and wife in that quarter of Loudon. He was returning home late one night when he overtook a man who was violently abusing and ill-using _ a woman. The poor woman was coming off very badly, and she had aleady got a damaged eye when the clergyman went up and remonstrated with the man on his behaviour. For a moment the blows and abuse were stayed, the man being too surprised at the interruption to continue. Then, to the astonishment of the peacemaker, the ill-used woman signed to him to go away. Wiping her eyes with her shawl, she informed him soothingly: , "It's all right, sir. Let 'im be. I'm 'is wife, an' it's 'is birfdayl"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10768, 14 May 1913, Page 5
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137HIS SPECIAL TREAT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 10768, 14 May 1913, Page 5
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