And when they turn their minds onto the best way
to clean the National house both sects have to live in to make it clean
and comfortable and safe for the weak and helpless as well as for the
strong--it stands to reason they won't have time or inclination to stand up
on stilts with tied-in ankles, quilled out like savages."
"Well," said Josiah, with a dark, forebodin' look on his linement, "_we
shall see_."
"Yes," sez I, with a real radiant look into the future. "_We shall
see_, Josiah."
But he didn't have no idea of the beautiful prophetic vision I beheld
with the eyes of my sperit. Good men and good women, each fillin' their
different spears in life, but banded together for the overthrow of evil,
the uplift of the race.
X
"THE CREATION SEARCHIN' SOCIETY"
It was only a few days after we got home from New York that Josiah come
into the house dretful excited. He'd had a invitation to attend a meetin'
of the Creation Searchin' Society.
"Why," sez I, "did they invite you? You are not a member?"
"No," sez he, "but they want me to help 'em be indignant. It is a
indignation meetin'."
"Indignant about what?" I sez.
"Fur be it from me, Samantha, to muddle up your head and hurt your feelin's
by tellin' you what it's fur." And he went out quick and shet the door. But
I got a splendid dinner and afterwards he told me of his own accord.
I am not a member, of course, for the president, Philander Daggett, said it
would lower the prestige of the society in the eyes of the world to have
even one female member.
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