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FOOLISH MEN AND SCOLDING WIVES, There were once upon a time two women, who were always quarrelling, as women will do, and one day when they had nothing else to quarrel about, they began arguing about their husbands, as to who was the most foolish. The longer they argued the more angry they got, and at last they were very near pulling each other's hair, for, as every one knows, it is easier to begin a quarrel than to end it, and it's a bad look-out if sense is wanting in such a predicament.