Wives

We came across this interesting monument when we visited the principal church in Totnes recently.

For a wealthy merchant who had four wives, one after the other, with the fourth one succeeding him.

Given that four is the number that Muslims are allowed (although I think there is a wealth qualification. You have to be able to afford it), I speculated about conversations between Christians and Muslims in pubs (or perhaps cafés given the latters' dislike of alcoholic drink) about the respective merits of taking one's wives in series or in parallel, with there clearly being ups and downs of both arrangements. I can think of some men who might get quite engrossed in such a subject. Or perhaps it is the sort of thing one needs to keep the conversation at the 19th hole going.

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