A clergyman travelling through the village of Kettle, in Fife was called into an inn to officiate at a marriage, instead of the parish minister, who was unable to attend. While the reverend gentleman was pronouncing the admonition, and just as he had told the bridegroom to love and honor his wife, the bridegroom interjected the words and obey, which he thought had been omitted from oversight, though that is part of the rule laid down solely to the wife.
The minister, surprised to find a husband willing to be henpecked by anticipation, did not take advantage of the proposed amendment; on which the bridegroom again reminded him of the omission: "Ay, and obey, sir,—love, honor, and obey, ye ken!" and he seemed very seriously discomposed at finding that his hint was not taken.
Some years afterward the same clergyman was riding through this village, when the same man came out and said: "D' ye mind, sir, yon day when ye married me, and I wad insist upon vowing to obey my wife? Weel, ye may now see that I was in the richt whether ye was or no. I ha'e obeyed my wife; and behold I am now the only man that has a two-story house in the hale toun!"
