The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-11-10
MARRIAGE ISN'T A FAILURE,
New York Tribune.

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ward slightly.
"What you readin', Abncr?" che
demanded when they were just this
side of Yonkers.
"Jess an old noospaper that Teller
with the cape on his coat dropped
here"
"Be you readin' them lottery adver-
tisements ag'in, AbnerS" she asked In
metallic accents.
"Naw, aint-do you think Pm n
fool, Hammer"
81 think you was once, and there
Amt no guarantee you be MT agin.
What are you readin'f"
IA little piece here about debate
they're havin' somewheres, bout rs
Marriage a Failure' Blamed II this
Teller don't kinder think It is"
ale ought to be ashamed of hisself,
that's all rve got to say bout him.
Abner, what do you think about it?"
at might be failure in some cases, !"
he answered meekly.
at might, might it?"
"Yes, 1t might"
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81 dunno"
"You do know, Abner! Has itf"
eyes, II has"
"Abner, l never thought to hear you
talk that way to me. 1t has been a
failure, has 1t? Pll learn you to be
ungrateful, you wretch. Haven't l
al'ays been q good wife to you? Have
ever scolded you or acted cross?
Hain't al'ays borne with all your
tailin's, and never said q woodland
you know yourself you've got more'n
a millyun. Hain't had more patience
with you thousand times than l Or
ter? Who nussed you up when the
sor'l hoss kicked you and said word
hardly bout your bein' durn fool tor
goin' behind the critter2 Who took
care OF you when the red calf hunted
you through the fence, and only meh-
toned to you a few times that abe
told you to keep away from the calf ?
Who had more patience than a saint,
when you went and lost 81 In that
lottery, and never throwed 1t up to
you hardly tall2 / knowed you was
the biggest fool In four counties TO go
into that lottery, but l amt never
KEEP tellin' you of It every five min
utes, and you know it. You know
yourself that you was fool to go and
lose that 81 in the lottery, and you've
admitted 1t to me Pll bet a hundred
times, but don't keep talkin' bout 1t
all the while. 'Taint my way to keep
dingin' bout thing all the time. You
know too, or you would know 1t, If
you knowed anything, but you don't,
and you know you don't. | knowed
l was jess throwin' myself away when
/ married you, and ev'ry body said so
then, and have ever since, but hain't
al'ays KEEP putin you in mind of 1t
every day. You've admitted to me more
n twenty thousan times that might
ofdone better and you was awful glad
to get me and now you go to sayin'
your marriage has been a failure.
Goodness gracious Peter, il ever seen
the beat Of it-and jess after losin'
them % In the lottery too, and my
not twittin' you bout It'll Let 'Zeke
Williams 20 and squander 81 In a mis-
cradle wicked lottery and Mis- Will
liams wouldn't never let him hear tho
end of It, and you know It, but here !
keep still and grin and bear 1t. Here
pve been standing your meanness and
deceit and foolishness for over thirty
years and seein' you lose money that
you admit yourself was over two
thirds mine In lottery and never say
i'm word, and then to have you talk
in bout thinkin' marriage Ia a failure
This is my reward for my patience, Is
it? Abner Walker, don't you dare to
tell me that again. Look up here
don't be actin sneakin'-is marriage a
failure?"
"No, Hammer, / don't think 1t Is"
allah, you don't? You think 80,
but you dasn't say It, that's the trou-
ble."
"No, Hammer, no; I'LL would
MT be 'fraid to say 30 II / thought 1t,
but after thinkin' more bout it, have
altered my mind"
"Have, have you? Well, you better
keep It altered, that's all Pve got to
say. Ye might do for some men that
had got some kind Of wives to whine
bout marriage bein' Q failure, but for
man that Is H'ble to lose money In a
lottery every day he lives less his
wife looks after him, It don't sound
very well. Now git them bundles
and satchels together, cause wen be
to York In bout Ave minutes, and
don't lose any Of them, and don't be
gawkin' round when you land, look