Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1881 — A Dear Husband. [ARTICLE]

A Dear Husband.

Marrowfat got up unusually early the. other morning, and his wife asked him if he would go out and buy some eggs for breakfast, as she had forgotten to order any the night before. Feeling unusually good-natured, he answered in the affirmative. “But,” said Mrs. M., “don’t go to the grocer’s; they charge twenty-five cents a dozen for them there, and they were only twenty-two cents at the butter and egg store yesterday. ” Marrowfat said nothing, but a quiet smile played round the corners of his mouth as he put on his hat and went out of the door. When he returned his loving spouse queried: “Eggs the same price to-day, my dear?” “Well,” replied pater familias, “these cost me thirty-two cents.” “ Why, Mr. Marrowfat, what do you mean?” asked she. “The grocer’s is next door, the butter and egg store quarter of a mile away; I rode down and back: the cheapest things, my "love, are sometimes the dearest,” chirped Marrowfat as he buried his head in the morning paper.— Boston Courier.