A _Man_ and _Two Wives_.
It was now _Cuckow-Time_, and a Certain _Middle-Ag’d Man_, that was
Half-Gray, Half-Brown, took a Fancy to Marry Two Wives, of an Age One
under Another, and Happy was the Woman that could please him Best. They
took Mighty Care of him to All manner of Purposes, and still as they were
Combing the Good Man’s Head, they’d be Picking out here and there a Hair
to make it all of a Colour. The Matronly Wife, she Pluck’d out All the
_Brown_ Hairs, and the Younger the _White_: So that they left the Man in
the Conclusion no better than a _Bald Buzzard_ betwixt them.
The MORAL.
_’Tis a much Harder Thing to Please Two Wives then Two Masters; and He’s
a Bold Man that offers at it._