Husbandry: Deep Waters, Part 6.

Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark) · 1943

Dealing with a man, said the night-watchman, thoughtfully, is as easy as a teetotaller walking along a nice wide pavement; dealing with a woman is like the same teetotaller, arter four or five whiskies, trying to get up a step that ain't there. If a man can't get 'is own way he eases 'is mind with a little nasty language, and then forgets all about it; if a woman can't get 'er own way she flies into a temper and reminds you of something you oughtn't to ha' done ten years ago. Wot a woman would do whose 'usband had never done anything wrong I can't think. I remember a young feller telling me about a row he 'ad with 'is wife once. He 'adn't been married long and he talked as if the way she…

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