25 Christmas Great time here yesterday. The
domestics were little out of order +
Mike has evidently very narrow
views about [carrot: the] marital relation. Mary’s
Irish trait was laughable. One
moment she was begging me to
put her husband on the horse +
punish him—yes draw + quarter him,
the next she was pleading with me
not to put him in the guard house.
When I interfere with man + wife
again_then_____.
