A man had a wife. The man’s wife came from a good family. Until he married her, the man had not known that he came from a bad family. The wife’s family was so splendid and the ways they did things were so superior that it was obvious that his family was no good.
The man’s wife worried. New people they met might think that she too came from a bad family. The worry gnawed at the wife day and night. There was only one solution: she must improve her husband. The wife set out to correct everything that was wrong with the man.
Correcting the man’s bad habits was hard work. The badness of his family was apparent in everything he did. He smelled bad. He had stubby toes. If he ate an apple he might stick the core into one of the flower pots in the window, claiming that it would break down into soil. The man did not know what to wear for what occasion. The wife had to be vigilant; even after she told the man what to do he sometimes reverted back to the vile ways of his bad family. Sometimes the man became obstinate and refused to do the right thing.
The man and his wife had two daughers. The older daughter turned out to be bad. It was clear to see. Her toes were stubby. She could not carry a tune. When scolded she did not react normally but froze to ice. Later, when the daughter became a teenager her sweat smelled bad, like old onions. The younger daughter turned out to be good. Her toes and fingers were long and elegant. She had the easy confidence of someone who can do no wrong. With his usual poor discernment the man did not know that his older daughter was bad or that his younger daughter was good. Even that his wife had to tell him. Sometimes the man became obstinate and behaved as if he did not believe her.TIP:
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