one of the middle daughters was married to the handsomest of the sons-in-law , but he was also hot tempered and beat her occasionally , whereupon the father would beat him , even though he was a smaller man , but he had his anger of course , and murderous it was , so the son-in-law would leave and then catch up with the carnival in the next town , get drunk with his father-in-law and make up with his wife and the whole cycle would start all over again .