And said his wife had thirteen
children, and wimmen instead of votin' ort to go and do likewise.
And I told him it wouldn't look well in onmarried wimmen and widders, and
if they should foller her example folks would talk.
And he said, "They ort to marry."
And I said, "As the fashion is now, wimmen had to wait for some man to ask
'em, and if they didn't come up to the mark and ask 'em, who wuz to blame?"
He wouldn't answer, and looked sulky, but honest, and wouldn't tell me who
to go to to git the errents done.
But jest outside his door I met the Senator I had left sobbin' over the
errents. He looked real hilarious, but drawed his face down when he ketched
my eye, and sithed several times, and sent me to Senator F. and he sent me
to Senator G.
And suffice it to say I wuz sent round, and talked to, and cried at, and
sulked to, and smiled at and scowled at, and encouraged and discouraged,
'till my head swum and my knees wobbled under me. And with all my efforts
and outlay of oratory and shue leather not one of Serepta Pester's errents
could I git done, and no hopes held out of their ever bein' done. And about
the middle of the afternoon I gin up, there wuz no use in tryin' any longer
and I turned my weary tracks towards the outside door. But as bad as I
felt, I couldn't help my sperit bein' lifted up some by the grandeur about
me.
Oh, my land! to stand in the immense hall and look up, and up, and see all
the colors of the rain-bow and see what wonderful pictures there wuz up
there in the sky above me as it were.
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