Asking the Old Man single work   prose   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1889... 1889 Asking the Old Man
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A suitor's bumbled attempts to ask his prospective father-in-law for permission to marry his daughter. US humour - and two months after the wedding he wishes he had not married at all. (PB)

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