Show EXPECTED HIM TO GROW wife had string tied to her promise to obey the intermittent dis discussion cusson about the propriety of the word obey tn in the bride brides s part of the marriage ice reminds city magistrate crane of a story when a certain couple were warbled the wife was sixteen years old and big and buxom the husband was two years her senior but slim to thinness and not up to the this average in height the years passed and the couple got along as well as many couple do but the wife waa was hard to manage with the flight of time she became larger while her theoretical lord and master added not an inch to his stature nor an ounce to his weight one day he wanted her to do something and she refused at first quietly then vehemently and finally explosively III not do it she declared and I 1 d like to see ou make me but maria expostulated the bus band when you married me dida t you promise to obey me I 1 did she replied then sizing up his diminutive proportions she ad ded but I 1 expected you d grow new times |