New York Herald, The Preaching Ploughman (1878)
“ Beaver, saying. "We are straight, we are." Lattin said he had given his wife money to buy clothing; at one time in particular he gave her sixty er seventy-five cents to buy stuff for chemises. "I told her I should not be at the expense of buying clothing so long as there was so much in the house." Lattin here became somewhat excited and Mr. Beaver told him not to be too earnest, as he (Beaver) was a dreadful fellow when he got mad. Lattin — A Christian would not get mad. Judge Reid — Who ever heard of a lawyer being a Christian? Lattin said he never gave his wife to exceed $2. ”
