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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 9.

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DOMESTIC BEARS.

Once upon a time, there lived a couple known far and wide for their interminable squabbles. Suddenly they changed their mode of life, and were as complete patterns of conjugal felicity as they had formerly been of discord. A neighbor, anxious to know the cause of such conversion, asked the gudewife to explain it. She replied, “I and the old man have got on well enough ever since we kept two bears in the house.”
“Two bears!” was the perplexed reply.
“Yes sure,” said the lady, “bear and forbear.”