But no sooner was he well settled than she began to flirt with Mr.Smith, and what does he do but yield to her blandishments and marry her?
Took her, and seemed to glory in it.
"Now, you'd've thought that she'd've been satisfied with that, when she'd got the share of four women and a quarter.

But pretty soon, as luck would have it, Smith, died and she hustled _him_ into the grave.
And in less than a year afterward I was amazed to hear that she was going to marry another Smyth.

I was never more astonished in my life.
Positively going to annex a third man, when the supply was too short anyway.

Did you ever hear of such impudence?
Did you, now ?" "I'll think it over and see if I can remember." "Well, then, I thought for certain _now_ that woman would knock off and give the rest of us some kind of a chance; and when Smyth was killed by cholera and interred, it never entered my head that that widow'd go after _another_ man.

But, bless your soul! she'd hardly got into second mourning before she began to pursue Mr.McFadden, and got him.