Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — Matrimonial Amenities. [ARTICLE]

Matrimonial Amenities.

Bill Pendergast, a rather impecunious Austin man, married for money, and his wife, a widow, ugly and longtongued, made William repent of his culpable avarice many and many a day. The widow biought with her into Bill’s family a son, as well as other property, and one evening sweet William overheard the boy howling dismally. “Whv howleth the kid!” inquired Bill. “He was a bad boy, and I have been whipping him. But I made him kiss me afterward to show hiffi that it was more in sorrow than in ganger that I punished him.” “Did you really a k that poor child 4io.,kisa.y»u ?”-&aid {r Yes, answered his wife. “How Could you be so cruel?” said BQI, “as to add new tortures to the punishment already inflicted?”— Texas Siftings.