ISAAC'S WIFE.
ISAAC'S WIFE.
And Abraham said unto his servant, "Thou shalt go unto my country and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac."
But the servant, who was evidently a student of female character and knew
"That when a woman will, she will,
You may depend on it;
And when she won't, she won't,
And there's an end on it;"
said: "Peradventure, the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land."
Then Abraham, who was a connoisseur in feminine ethics (as he naturally would be, having had such able instructors as Sarah and Hagar) and realized the utter futility of attempting to persuade, bribe or induce a woman to do anything she objected to doing, said: