Well, in puttin' in her onion seed, she
overworked herself and got a crick in her back, so she couldn't stir hand
nor foot for two days. And bein' only just them two, her husband had to
stay home to see to things.
And the Treasurer's wife is canvassin' for the life of William J. Bryan.
And wantin' to make all she could, she took a longer tramp than common, and
didn't hear of the Parade or meetin' of the C.S.S. at all. She writ home
a day or two before the meetin', that she wuz goin' as long as her legs
held out, and they needn't write to her, for she didn't know where she
would be.
Well, of course, the Creation Searchers didn't want to go without their
officers. They said they couldn't make no show if they did. So they give up
goin'. But I spoze they made fun of the Woman's Parade amongst theirselves,
and mourned over their indelikit onwomanly actions, and worried about it
bein' too hard for 'em, and sneered at 'em considerable.
Well, Josiah always loves to have me with him, an' though he'd made light
of the Parade, he didn't object to my goin'. And suffice it to say that we
arrove at that Middleman's safe and sound, though why we didn't git lost in
that grand immense depo and wander 'round there all day like babes in the
woods, is more'n I can tell.
The Middleman wuzn't dishonest: he convinced Josiah on it. He had shipped
the colored eggs somewhere, and of course he couldn't pay as much, and he
never had hearn of _Ratage_ or _Satage_.
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