Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

THE THREE BRIDES

CHAPTER I
The Model And Her Copies

There is sure another Flood toward, that so many couples are coming to the Ark.—As You Like It

“Ah! it is a pitiable case!”

“What case, boys?”

“Yours, mother, with such an influx of daughters-in-law.”

“I suspect the daughters-in-law think themselves more to be pitied.”

“As too many suns in one sphere.”