Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1879 — How He Won All Her Money. [ARTICLE]

How He Won All Her Money.

Once there was a young man who married a young woman, and she was rich aud he was poor, and it made him sad to think of it. One day she told him damaging stones about some of her neighbors that she had heard at a tea-fight, and he listened and through, and very soon he saw a way out of nis poverty, for his wife believed the tales she had heard at the tea-fight. After she had finished the stories, he said: “I will go you five to twenty there is not one word of truth in that you have just told me,” —for he did not know how sure his game was, so he wanted odds. And she pitying his folly, said. “It’s a whach.” and they investigated the stories and found them false, so he won. And they continued in tliis sinful practice of betting on the tn/th or falsity of town gossip, in thbfc&me in which they started out. and four orders years had not turned the cortiet ere he had all her wealth, and she soyne valuable experience.