WIDOWS
GRAVE AND
OTHERWISE

“Widders are ’ceptions to ev’ry rule.”

—Dickens.

PURLOINED BY AN EX-WIDOW
AND PICTURED BY A VICTIM

PUBLISHED BY AN IMMUNE

A creature not too bright or good

for human nature’s daily food.

—Wordsworth.

WIDOWS
GRAVE AND
OTHERWISE

COMPILED BY CORA D. WILLMARTH
ILLUSTRATED BY A. F. WILLMARTH

COPYRIGHT, 1903
BY PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY

PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS, SAN FRANCISCO

Be to her virtues very kind;

Be to her faults a little blind.

—Prior.