"Yas'm," replied Mollie, unruffled. "Cose I trus' him, personally—but not wid ma valuables."
It is necessary to be almost a genius to make a good husband.—Balzac.
Jennie, the colored maid, arrived one morning with her head swathed in bandages—the result of an argument with her hot-tempered spouse.
"Jennie," said her mistress, "your husband treats you outrageously. Why don't you leave him?"
"Well, I don' 'zactly wants to leave him."
"Hasn't he dragged you the length of the room by your hair?" demanded her mistress.
"Yas'm he has done dat."
"Hasn't he choked you into insensibility?"