And as I
looked on his beloved linement I forgot everything else and onbeknown to me
I leaned over the railin' and sez:
"Here is sunthin' that no one has seemed to think on at home or abroad. How
would it work to stop the trouble by givin' the wimmen the rights they ask
for, the rights of any other citizen?"
I don't spoze there will ever be such another commotion and upheaval in
Jonesville till Michael blows his last trump as follered my speech. Knowin'
wimmen wuz kep' from the meetin', some on 'em thought it wuz a voice from
another spear. Them wuz the skairt and horrow struck ones, and them that
thought it wuz a earthly woman's voice wuz so mad that they wuz by the side
of themselves and carried on fearful. But when they searched the gallery
for wimmen or ghosts, nothin' wuz found, for Philander's wife and I had
scooted acrost lots and wuz to home a-knittin' before the men got there.
And I d'no as anybody but Philander to this day knows what, or who it wuz.
And I d'no as my idee will be follered, but I believe it is the best way
out on't for men and wimmen both, and would stop the mad doin's of the
English Suffragettes, which I don't approve of, no indeed! much as I
sympathize with the justice of their cause.
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