Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-10-18
THE GRAY MARE Is THE BET
ltF TER HORSE.


have originated from the following cir
cumstanee. A gentleman in certain
county in England, having married a
young lady of considerable fortune,
found, not long after marriage, that she
was Of a high, domineering temper, and
always contending to be mistress both
of him and of his family; therefore, he
formed the resolution of parting from
her. Accordingly, he waited on her
father, and told him that he found his
daughter of such a temper that me was
heartily tired Of her, and If he would
take her home again he would return
every penny Of her fortune
The old gentleman having inquired
into the cause of his complaint, asked
him why he should be more disquieted
at it. than any other married man,
since it was the common case with them
all, and consequently no more than he
might have expected when he entered
into the married state. The young gem
tleman was far from giving his assent to
this assertion, saying that he thought
himself more unhappy than any other
man, Sas his wife had a spirit no way to
to be quelled, and most certainly no
man who had sense of right and
wrong could ever submit to be gov
erned by his wife. s'Son," said the old
man, you are but little acquainted
with the world If you do not know that
though not all indeed by the same
method; however, to end all disputes,
between us, will put what have said
upon this proof, if you are willing to it i;
have five horses in my stable; you
shall harness these to cart, in which I
shall put basket containing hundred
eggs; and, If, in passing through the
country, and making a strict inquiry
into the truth or falsehood of my asser-
ton, and leaving horse at the house
4 Of every man who is master Of his fami-
ly himself, and one egg only where the
wife governs. you shall find your eggs
gone before your horses, hope you will
then think your own case not uncOm-
mon, but will be contented to go home
and look upon your wife as no worse
than her neighbors. If, on the other
hand, yonr horses are gone first, I will
take my daughter home again, and you
shall keep her fortune"
This proposal was too advantageous
to be rejected. Our young married
man therefore set out with great eager
ness, to get rid, as he thought, of his
horses and his wife. At the first house
he came to, he heard woman with q
shrill and angry voice call to her hus-
band to go to the door. Here he left an
egg, you may be sure, without making
| any further inquiry. AT the next he
met with something of the same kind,
and at every house, in short, until his
| eggs were almost gone, when he arri-
| we'd at the house of gentleman of fam
| lily and figure in the country. He
knocked at the door, and inquiring for
the master of the house, was told by q
servant that his master was not vet
stirring, but if he pleased to walk in,
,his lady was in the parlor. The lady,
with great comp1aisance, desired him
to be seated, and said, If his business
| was urgent, she would wake her hus-
band, but had much rather not disturb
him. ''Why, really, madam" said he,
\ ''my business Is only to ask q question
which you can answer as well as your
husband, if you will be ingenious with
| me; you will, doubtless, think it odd,
\ and it may be deemed impolite for any
one, much more stranger, to ask such
a question: but as very considerable
wager depends upon it, and it may be
of some advantage to yourself to de-
clare the truth to me, l hope these con-
| siderations will plead my excuse. 1t is,
madam, my desire to be Informed
whether you govern your husband, OF
he rules over you." "Indeed, sir" re-
/ PAtSNt thO Aooy, OLAS 4uCStIOn Is SOulc-
what odd; but as think no one ought
to be ashamed of doing her duty, shall
make no scruple to say that am always
proud to obey my husband in all things
The gentleman at that time entered the
room, and, after some apologies, being
made acquainted with the business, con.
firmed all his obedieat wife had reported
in her own favor, upon which he was
requested to choose which horse in the
team he liked best, and to accept it as ,
present.
A black gelding struck the fancy o.
the gentleman most, but the lady de
sired that he would choose the gray
mare, which she thought would be very
fit for her side-saddle; her HUSBAND
gave substantial reasons why the blacl
horse would be the most useful to them
but madam still persisted in her CLAIM
to the grey mare. "What," said she
and will you not take her, then? Blu