So thus instructed he went away.

After a time he returned, and said he had made up his mind to try the experiment, and he came and was married.

Ere long he came back very disconsolate, and declared it would not do at all; that he was quite miserable, and begged to be unmarried.

The minister assured him that was out of the question, and urged him to put away the notion of anything so absurd.

The man insisted that the marriage could not hold good, for the wife was "waur than the deevil." The minister demurred, saying that it was quite impossible.