" But Philander scorfed at him and reminded him that
such hullsale doin's would put an end to the world's bein' populated at
all.
But Phileman said in a hicuppin', maudlin way that "the world had better
stop, if there had got to be such doin's, wimmen risin' up on every side,
and pretendin' to be equal with men."
Here his knee jints kinder gin out under him, and he slid down onto the
seat and went to sleep.
I guess the members wuz kinder shamed of Phileman, for Lime Peedick jumped
up quick as scat and said, "It seemed the Englishmen had tried most
everything else, and he wondered how it would work if them militant wimmen
could be ketched and a dose of sunthin' bitter and sickenin' poured down
'em. Every time they broached that loathsome doctrine of equal rights, and
tried to make lawmakers listen to their petitions, jest ketch 'em and pour
down 'em a big dose of wormwood or sunthin' else bitter and sickenin', and
he guessed they would git tired on't."
But here Josiah jumped up quick and said, "he objected," he said, "that
would endanger the right wimmen always had, and ort to have of cookin' good
vittles for men and doin' their housework, and bearin' and bringin' up
their children, and makin' and mendin' and waitin' on 'em. He said nothin'
short of a Gatlin gun could keep Samantha from speakin' her mind about such
things, and he wuzn't willin' to have her made sick to the stomach, and
incapacitated from cookin' by any such proceedin's.
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