Man who continually threatens to leave wife mortified when she tells him to go; pretends his buffalo is dragging him home (after he does leave)

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Man who continually threatens to leave wife mortified when she tells him to go; pretends his buffalo is dragging him home (after he does leave).

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Retorts between husband and wife. · view the constellation · filed as J1545.3.3

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Filed under Fault-finding husband nonplussed. The wife has cooked so many dishes that when he complains, she can always supply another. Finally he says, "I had rather eat dung." She produces some.

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Which does the more work. Wife shows that she does many more tasks in one morning than the husband Where are the shoes? Fault-finding husband threatens to hit wife with shoes. She: "You will have to have some shoes first."

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