His second wife could manage him.

She made him walk Spanish, believe me! The first thing she did was to make him hustle round and put up a tombstone to the first Mrs.
Job--and she had a place left on it for her own name.

She said there'd be nobody to make Job put up a monument to HER." "Speaking of Taylors, how is Mrs.Lewis Taylor up at the Glen, doctor ?" asked Captain Jim.
"She's getting better slowly--but she has to work too hard," replied Gilbert.
"Her husband works hard too--raising prize pigs," said Miss Cornelia.
"He's noted for his beautiful pigs.

He's a heap prouder of his pigs than of his children.

But then, to be sure, his pigs are the best pigs possible, while his children don't amount to much.