A convivial benedict, on retiring at a late…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

A convivial benedict, on retiring at a late hour, was greatly chagrined to find the room spinning around in divers directions, and with this sensation there was yet another of the mal de mer order. His spouse said nothing until the following morning when she aroused her liege lord with the question, “David, where do you find the quotation that when man and woman are married they become one? Is it in the Bible, or Shakespeare?” “Why, in the Bible of course,” he replied. “The Bible is true is it not?” his wife demurely asked. “Yes,” David replied. Then said his wife, “We came home pretty full last night, didn’t we?”