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 COWS ARE TREATED LIKE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY

of purchase money, husband No. 1 may intervene and demand a refunding of his original investment. Strangely enough, a man may not remarry his own divorced widow, even if he be so disposed, until she has been married to a second husband and for a second time divorced. Upon such remarriage with husband No. 1, the father of the bride may again make demand for the payment of the price, doubtless a lower one than that first paid, the son-in-law being looked upon as a wholesale customer, and the wife, in all probability, having gained nothing in beauty with the march of time. But happy is the wife who, as the mother of a lusty