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THE DRUNKEN HUSBAND. 



A certain Woman had a Drunken Husband, 

 whom she had endeavoured to reclaim by several 

 ways, without effect. She, at last, tried this strata- 

 gem : when he was brought home one night dead 

 drunk, she ordered him to be carried to a burial- 

 place, and there laid in a vault, as if he had been 

 dead indeed. Thus she left him, and went away 

 till she thought he might be come to himself, and 

 grown sober again. When she returned, and 

 knocked at the door of the vault, the man cried out, 

 who's there? I am the person, ^says she, in a dis- 

 mal tone of voice, that waits upon the dead folks, 

 and I am come to bring you some victuals. Ah, 

 good waiter, says he, let the victuals alone, and 

 bring me a little drink, I beseech thee. The 

 Woman hearing this, fell to tearing her hair, and 

 beating her breast in a woful manner; Unhappy 



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