Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1912 — Twas Ever Thus. [ARTICLE]

Twas Ever Thus.

“Now, by me halldome!” stormed Sir Michael De Byte, pausing in the donning of his clothes, “ ’twas a neglectful and slatternly housewife I got when I wed thee!" “What irketh thee, Mike dear?” r .asked Ms trembling “What iketh, quotha! There be three rivets out of my clean shift of mafl!” And she was fain to weep softly an he smote her With his mace. *