Show 5 and a Dog Price o of One OJe Wife Wib I Mary Ann Thompson was the last I wife to be sold at public auction InI in I England the sale taking place at Carlisle in 1832 She was the spouse of ot a farmer Joseph Thompson and had I been married about three years when her husband decided to sell her on the auction block This old practice al although although although al- al I though it never had legal sanction had been followed in rural sections of ot otI I England land for The a auction comm commenced n d the appointed day Thorn Thom i his wife in a large oaken c cK rope around her neck fie fIl Heps I her faults and her good the assembled assemble throng bidders but at length she down to Henry Mears l t D shillings s and a X Xe New Mrs Thompson went aw away with her new owner and Is U I lived happily with hl Mm |