Show TAMING OF THE SHREW how a new hampshire lilo disciplined 1114 wife many years ago boston herald opposite a jyerald man at a table in a Corn cornhill bill restaurant at dinner dinner recently sat a man from cambridge who was a native of new hampshire meeting an aji old acquaintance the conversa conversation tion soon turned on family topics and the pair began to talk about their former neighbors in a most familiar way yes remarked the cambridge gentleman sam was in many respects different from the rest of the boys you rem remember eiber whom I 1 lie ie married well when the old man his father found that he lie was round with her he called him one day dayi in the L barn larn arn and said sam dye intend to marry beckie sam never said a word so the old man said me boy ye know all about them I 1 cant tell ye bothin ye know how the sisters have turned out and naione not one of them is now livin with their husbands sam was as mum is a pan pantomime tominie and just as soon as he be was ready him and beckie got tied they lived on a farm and anda everything ery thing went on smooth for about ab out a year and it came to hog butch erin time sam got a all ready to have the usual party for ter tho the occasion and just as he was sharpening up tip the k knives ni I 1 ves beckie came out and said sam im goin home sam protested in his quiet way but ut it was no use so he said hed get a man to row her across the pond it was about chalfa halfa mile over she said id no ye wont yell row me over herself yer self sam told iier her he lie and beckie fired up tip and said then ill drown myself sam said hed go with her it if she wanted to do that so the boat was got ready she got in in and they rowed out until the water was twenty feet dee deep then sammie stopped and sair said well beckie thi thesis is a good place for ye to drown herself she open her mouth he ile waited awhile and then q iid tid come beckie im in a liu 1 0 fieback git fit back she ia never ver Jook loo av I 1 sam put up tip the oars caught hom 0 of her and pitched her in she grabbed for the boat but he lie let belfit iier git near it when she was almost done one out she said sam let me in that boat and not hear anything from me out of the iva way i so 0 he lie pulled her in and they went back home she changed her clothes and entertained the guest they arenow are now nearly eighty and you never saw a it happier old ld couple dilyou did you I 1 dont think they ever spoke of that buckin since the day she was wits going to drown herself |