. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XXIII. PULLING TOGETHER. AVIicn souls, that should agree to will the same,To have one common object for their wishes,LooU different ways, regardless of each other,Think what a train of wretchedness ensues ! AID a husband to his angry wife: Look atCarlo and Kitty asleep on the rug; I wish menlived half as agreeably with their wives. Stop ! said the lady. Tie them together,and see how they will agree ! If men and•women when tied together sometimes agree very badly what isthe reason ? Because instead of pulling together each
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XXIII. PULLING TOGETHER. AVIicn souls, that should agree to will the same,To have one common object for their wishes,LooU different ways, regardless of each other,Think what a train of wretchedness ensues ! AID a husband to his angry wife: Look atCarlo and Kitty asleep on the rug; I wish menlived half as agreeably with their wives. Stop ! said the lady. Tie them together,and see how they will agree ! If men and•women when tied together sometimes agree very badly what isthe reason ? Because instead of pulling together each of them■wishes to have his or her own way. But when they do pull•together what greater thing is there for them than to feel thatthey are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labour,■to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other all pain, to be one with each other in the silent unspeakablejnemories at the moment of the last parting ?. 2ii HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. What is meant by pulling together may be explained by-referring to the custom of the Dunmow flitch, which by Juga, a noble lady, in iiii, and restored by-Robert de Fitzwalter, in 1244, It was that any person part of England going to Dunmow in Essex, and humblykneeling on two stones at the church door, may claim a gammon,of bacon if he can swear that for twelve months and a day hehas never had a household brawl or wished himself the phrase He may fetch a flitch of bacon fron>Dunmow, , He is so amiable and good-tempered that he-will never quarrel with his wife. To eat Dunmow bacon is talive in conjugal amity. There were only eight claimants ad-mitted to eat the flitch between the years 1244-1772, a numberthat seems to justify Priors sarcastic connlet: Ah, madam, cease to be mistaken,Few married fowl peck Dunmow bacon. It is a great pity that ^^^ew married fowl peck Dunmow bacon,for those that do are so
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