Some of Aesop's fables with modern instances shewn in designs by Randolph Caldecott . THE MAN AND HIS TWO WIVES. THE MAN AND HIS TWO WIVES. A MAN whose hair was turning gray had two Wives, oneyoung and the other old. The elderly woman felt ashamedat being married to a man younger than herself, and made it apractice whenever he was with her to pick out all his black hairs ;^vhile the younger, anxious to conceal the fact that she had anelderly husband, used, similarly, to pull out the gray ones. So,between them, it ended in the Man being completely plucked, andbecoming bald. THE MAN AND HIS TWO
Some of Aesop's fables with modern instances shewn in designs by Randolph Caldecott . THE MAN AND HIS TWO WIVES. THE MAN AND HIS TWO WIVES. A MAN whose hair was turning gray had two Wives, oneyoung and the other old. The elderly woman felt ashamedat being married to a man younger than herself, and made it apractice whenever he was with her to pick out all his black hairs ;^vhile the younger, anxious to conceal the fact that she had anelderly husband, used, similarly, to pull out the gray ones. So,between them, it ended in the Man being completely plucked, andbecoming bald. THE MAN AND HIS TWO WIVES. 63
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