A happily married woman, who had enjoyed thirty-three years of wedlock, and who was the grandmother of four beautiful little children, had an amusing old colored woman for a cook.
One day when a box of especially beautiful flowers was left for the mistress the cook happened to be present, and she said: "Yo' husband send you all the pretty flowers you gits, Missy?"
Certainly, my husband, mammy, proudly answered the lady.
Glory! exclaimed the cook, "he suttenly am holdin' out well."