The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-12-30

many years and lest | forget to set
;, down more mad dogs than can we'll b
= handled My wife very hystericky an
:. forever in a smock and declareth sh
would be dead and married life a d.
fusion, the which opinion l take sma
-, issue with having my hands full c
business and Lasselle forever at m
heels with our affair of the mine no
to speak of H. Nevil which wallet
continually over how he was caugh
short in the month of June. Beshrev
me II l repent not of June on min'
own behalf but am determined to liv,
properly and so have dispatched
messenger to my cousin Sarah Bad
minton asking that she come to keel
mine house
August twentieth.
Comes Sarah Badminton this day
and Lord but plain woman, being flat
like unto board from her heels ur
unto her head.
Last night to the play where comes
Lasselle and makes very merry and
telleth jokes the which Of great amuse-
|
| therein.
To my office where did bay and sell
as usual.
September sixteenth.
My wife not we'll and strangely in
disposed towards me yawning unduly
and complaining that life is dull, vet
gay enough for others and of great
JOY over riding horseback with Las.
selle.
10 my office and H. Nevil all excite
ment over his margins.
october tWenty-ninth.
Returned this day from a trip to the
coast and find my wife no better al.
though the doctor hath been with her
each day. She saith the doctor ady.s-
eth quiet until spring.
November sixth.
MY VIE most nervous and there be-.
ing no peace with her did discuss .he
same with Lasselle today and al
though unmarried yet did sympatglize
much and advise for me with a eight
good will telling me of a pla.e in
southern France where he had been
and the same beyond all else fer the
nerves only lonely but that not 10 had
since he proposeth goiNg there this
winter himself and can see after NV
VIE somewhat the which greatly to
my relief and so h1me and did dis.
course thereon with Mistress Badmin.
ton the Which drew a long face and
plain to see was dead against the plan
the which putting 1ae in a fine temper
with what a womass hath for brains.
Wheat rising ard A. B. & c. going
down comes II. Navil short to borrow
the Which crownet;l my fury his niece
pelng SO far FROM making me happy |
and he being tks cause of all. But
did lndorse two notes for him and 90
nome and to bed with bad grace and
glad that my wife has betaken herself
to another room.
December NINTH
From the d.,ck and my wife do be
gone and now we may look for some
peace the which sad enough needed
December tenth.
S" - H>S'AAi OH ulSlIduSnC 10 say
hat 1t is about at the clubs that NV
wife will have a divorce and marry
The doctor, on the which hearing 1
much annoyed and summon Mrs. Bad
hinton who denyeth the doctor but
asserteth Lasselle.
To mine office and D. & E. going I'M
comes H. Nevil to borrow again the
gall of which doth take me greatly.
January seventeenth.
Am all OF a taking for that the pa-
'ers in my wife's divorce do be filed
INTO me this day and great to do when
learn that the cause she declareth
S Sarah Badminton a woman as little
lonely as never was and mine own
ousin. Verify the ways Of a wife be
ast understanding.
april eleventh.
Free this day and being free comes
lrs. Badminton weeping and declar-
tn she be ruined if | marry her not
ext the which doth SO overcome me
hat eye have time to rally she hath
Used me and called me hers.
10 my office with heavy heart
aving no assurance of how this sec.
nd marriage will turn out and little
ope but seeing II. Nevil with a long
10y did refuse to give him any inside
ltormation the which led to his going
nder about noon to my great Joy for
was he who did get me in this mar.
wing habit.
ebruary first.
MY birthday and Lord what eating
nd drinking the which being good be.
ohd compare my wife staying in the
antry to keep the whole in trim and =
Il my friends discoursing on my joy ..
le which is truly great she being so =
aln that a man will never look at her .
I'D so loving that she adoreth me
'me smiles come frowns
But that which doth astontsh mo
UGH is that II. Nevil teIleth me that =
he that was once my wife is of ex-
eding content with Lasselle G piece :;
news which l can scarce credit :.
him with myself. s,
But so Wags the world.