Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-08
pated. At breakfast one morning the
wife quietly asked:

wife quietly asked:
Adam, what about my teeth?"
Got 'em, hain't your" he replied.
1--WE got to have false plate"
Cows git along mighty well with
only one set"
Il shall go to the village tomorrer
and get the plate or divorced"
Want divorce, do you?"
II do
"rhen you kin have it!'
The rope had broken at last, and
the wife was SO astonished that min.
utes fed away before she could ask,
Adam, don't you care about my
teeth?''
"Gaul darn em!" was the vigorous
answer.
Very we'll; it shall be divorced"
Aunt Roxy, as the wife was now old
enough to be called, had made her
bluff and her hand had been called.
She must either back down or go
ahead 1t didn't take her minute to
decide. Showing back from the table,
she said sa4et 81
well, as am to be divorced will
leave the dishes for you to wash"
Cali right"
sisters, three miles away, and as she
was departing she said to her hus-
band:
Adam, I set emptings last night
and you'd better take look at them
pretty soon. They may sour on you"
He sat on the doorstep and watched
her go down the road, and when she
could no longer be seen he went into
the house and went to bed and slept
the day through till shutdown.
whats the natter" asked Aunt
Roxys sister when the house was
reached.
"Divorce!" was the brief reply.
For what?"
Adams broke away at last"
"Shoo! You don't say!"
81 said I'd have the teeth or a d.
vorce, and he said gaul darn the
teeth"
We'll, if it's come, then it's come"
Did you leave him with clean sheets
and piller-cases?"
Il was ging to change 'en today.
Better go back the first thing in the
morning. | knowed woman who
failed to win divorce because she
left the house with the bed all tousled
up"
After rest, Aunt Roxy went on to
the next farm house to tell the news.
Going to git a divorce, chi" ex-
claimed the woman.
YES; I'm drove to It,"
What driv ye?"
adam gaul darned my teeth"
"Stars and garters! Well, I've felt
for the last four weeks as II some
thing was going to happen. Did you
notice what time 1t was when he gaul
darned you?"
bout 8 o'clock, | guess.
"But don't you know"
mot exactly" 2s
Then you may lose your case. A
woman has got to swear to the very
minute when she's been sworn at.
You ought to have got up and stopped
the clock"
Aunt Roxy passed on to the next
house, which was occupied by farm
er. who was also blacksmith. When
the wife was told that divorce was
to be applied for, she asked:
Ibid you offer to kiss Adam when
you came away?"
"No."
Then you'll git beat. The Family
Almanac says that the wife must
show readiness to make up"
"But the husband ought to, too"
"He was probably too overcome.
Wait till call Henry in"
The farmer-blacksmith came in and
heard the news, and, after looking
wise for time, he asked Aunt
Roxy:
"Did Adam gaul darn your eyes?"
mo; my teeth"
"The false teeth you were to get?"
Eyes"
"Then you've no case. Under the
law you've got to gaul darn livin'
object, and false teeth are not alive.
Better give 1t up
1t was candle light when Aunt
Roxy opened the gate and walked up
the path. Adam sat in the doorway,
hungry and lonely and wondering.
She sat down beside him and his arm
stole around her.
~ don't want divorce she said
"And gaul darn my bones, I'm
going to work in earnest in the
mornin'!"
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