Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-21
"GIvE ME MY BAE.E-SHOP!
I Am Tired of the Trade and You Ca,
Have Your Wife Back"

L.
Hase Your Wtfe Back"
Ist. Louis Republican,
A month ago, in the neighborhood of
Chouteau avenue and Seventh street,
there occurred remarkable business
transaction, which was mentioned by the
Republican at the time, but came up
again yesterday. In that vicinity there
was and is yet bakery, and the business
transaction referred to is the change in
the proprietorship of that bakery, wild
over be it understood ano quite wealthy,
had q conversation with an en-
ploye with little money but very
pretty little wife. The proprietor pro-
posed to his employee trade. The w,d
over said that he would give the en-
pleye the bakery and 80 bill, providing
that the employee would give to him the
pretty little wife above referred to.
There was great deal Of deliberation
over the matter on the part of the en-
ploye and the wife. Coolly and calmly
they talked the matter over, and she said
that she had no objection if he had none,
and he said the same thing with the gen.
der of the pronoun changed. Agreed
There was mutual dissolution of the
nuptial ties, and the very next morning
the bakery was turned over, with SO
cash in the till, to the employe, who open
ed up the place as his former boss and his
former wife were passing eastward on the
train. The man who took charge OF the
bakery did not wear q careworn look. but
seemed on the contrary to prosper and
70 hyrf three
weeks was heard of the man who had
given his bakery for another mans wife.
There are, perhaps, not ten persons who
know that such a change ever took place
in the proprietorship of the bakery, and
if there are few who knew that much,
there are but three or four who have
faint idea of the circumstances surround
ing that trade. There was scene at the
bakery yesterday morning. The former
employee was behind the coulter when in
the door walked arm in-arm the former
employee and the former wife, both as big
as life, smiling, hearty, and hale. There
was not much ceremony in the converse
ton, for the returned employer said to
the present proprietor of the bread fac
tory: "Here's your wife. am tired of
her. Give me back my bakery" But the
present proprietor looked at the speaker
blankly, and said he was satisfied with
his part of the trade and proposed
to hold on to that bakery through
thick and thin. Then the returned pro-
prietor tried to explain that the trade
was only joke. but the other man could
not see it in that light, and the general
public will not deplore his lack of compre
hension. In the end the man who con-
cluded that he had got the worst of the
bargain and wanted to so back because
all parties did not "touch leather was
most uncermoniously fired out of that
bakery with the woman IN the case fol-
lowing him. The party who was sorry
for the trade longed for some friendly ear
in which he could pour his tale of won
drous woe, and he hied himself to the
Four Courts with the fendish pur-
pose of getting out warrant. He
did not know exactly what kind
Of warrant he wanted, and was SEEM
ingly unaware that he, being law-abid-
ing, peaceable citizen, might have good
grounds for q criminal action against
himself. He wanted that bakery back
again, and his Teutonic mind could not
grasp the fact that to reconsider trade
both parties must be like the celebrated
Barkis-willin' This Is the story he
told an ex- deputy marshal in the German
tongue, and he told him that the criminal
court had nothing to do with such case,
and sent him flying down the street to
the court house.