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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

WIDOWS GRAVE AND OTHERWISE

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

PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS, SAN FRANCISCO

Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind.

--Prior.

January First

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

--Bruyere.

January Second

Wedlock's like wine,--not properly judged of till the second glass.

--Douglas Jerrold.

January Third

The Spaniards have it that a buxom widow must be either married, buried, or shut up in a convent.

--Haliburton.

January Fourth

Frailty, thy name is woman! a little month, or ere those shoes were old with which she followed my poor father's body, like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she, married with my uncle.

--Shakespeare.

January Fifth

To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, thrice is madness.

--Dutch Proverb.

January Sixth

Mrs. President has disposed of six husbands and is to take a seventh: being of the opinion that there is as much virtue in the touch of a seventh husband as of a seventh son.

--Addison.

January Seventh

I praise th' saints I niver was married, though I had opportunities enough when I was a young man, an' even now I have to wear me hat low whin I go down be Cologne Street, on account iv the widow Grogan.

--Mr. Dooley.

January Eighth

Tush! herself knows not what she shall do when she is transformed into a widow.

--Chapman.

January Ninth

Widows are such a subtle generation of people they may be left to their own conduct; if they make a false step, they are answerable for it to nobody but themselves.

--Addison.

January Tenth

I have seen a widow that just before was seen pleasant enough, follow an empty hearse and weep devoutly.

--Chapman.

January Eleventh

I' faith, he'll have a lusty widow now, That shall be wooed and wedded in a day.

--Shakespeare.

January Twelfth

Here's a small trifle of wives: alas,--eleven widows and nine maids, is a simple coming in for one man.

--Shakespeare.

January Thirteenth

If for widows you die, Learn to kiss, not to sigh.

--Charles Lever.

January Fourteenth

The widow Quick married within a fortnight after the death of her last husband. Her weeds have served her twice and are still as good as new.

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