Proverbs More Read Than Followed

1874

Proverbs in general are more read than followed. We hear often of the expression "the more the merrier." Now go and ask a couple of doting lovers, if they believe in that sort of thing. They would undoubtedly think that two was company, and three was a crowd.

One thing is certain it is hard, very hard to crowd that idea into the heads of some that is or that was to be mother-in-laws. When I sparked Mariah McGoozleum, her dear mamma always helped to make up the crowd. But for that I might have had the gall, if she would have had me. I can't for the life of me, see why some mammas so far forget themselves, as to forget that they were once girls, and once considered three was a crowd.

The old saying is that "an honest man's word is as good as his bond," but that's "too thin" (Shakespeare again) now-a-days. It might have been so at the time of the flood, when the world had a good washing, but it won't wash now.



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