Mr. Caudle was blessed with an indomitable constitution. One fact will prove the truth of this. He lived thirty years with Mrs. Caudle, surviving her. Yes, it took thirty years for Mrs. Caudle to lecture and dilate upon the joys, griefs, duties, and vicissitudes comprised within that seemingly small circle the wedding-ring. We would rather compare it to an elfin ring, in which dancing fairies made the sweetest music for infirm humanity.
Manifold are the uses of rings.
Even swine are tamed by them. You will see a vagrant, hilarious, devastating porker a full-blooded fellow that would bleed into many, many fathoms of black pudding you will see him, escaped from his proper home, straying in a neighbour's garden. Here he gives a reckless snatch at thyme and marjoram and here he munches violets sad gillyflowers. At length the marauder is detected, seized by his owner, and driven, beaten home. To make the porker less dangerous, it is determined that he shall be ringed.