"PLEASE GIVE ME A PENNY!"
FOR BETTER OR WORSE!
(Two Views of the Same Subject.)
POSSIBLE ROMANCE.
SCENE—A Dungeon beneath the Castle Moat. Wife chained to a post, with bread and water beside her. Enter Husband, with cat-o'-nine-tails.
Husband. And now, after ten days' seclusion, will you make over your entire property to me, signing the deed with your life's blood?
Wife (in a feeble voice). Never! You may kill me, but I will defy you to the last!
Husband. Then die! [He is about to leave the dungeon, when he is met by a Messenger from the Court of Appeal.