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A (ood Wife.—A friend of ours who has been -pending a few week* in the country,’an 1 who has visited some *•!’ ilu* privat • dwellings of the rustic inhabitants, tella of a singular old mail w ho lives near Brookfield, lie i-* some whut noted for his odd expressions. Ho was one day visited by a email parly of ladies aud gentlemen who wontto hear him *i »lk. N»nv, voting gon-tlciiii n/* said he, I will give you *ome directions how to tell a good wife. A ' good wife will bo like three things, and who will not belike them. She will bo like the snail who stays at home, aud I she w 111 uot be like the snail who carries all it bus on its back. She will be like tho echo, apcaek when fipokan to, and she will never he like the echo t always to have the last word. She will bo like the town clock that -pink* at flu* right time, mid she will not be liko the towu dork, heard all over towu.
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Des Arc Weekly Citizen
Des Arc, Arkansas, US
Sat, May 02, 1868
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Dan D.
WA, USA 09 Feb 2025
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