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She put a powerful emphasis on the "might not," and Josiah looked real agitated, and I sez: "Such talk is onprofitable, and I should advise you, Josiah, to use your man's influence to try to make peace for the country's good, instead of wars for the profit of Trusts, Ambition, etc., and you can escape the cannon's mouth, and Arvilly keep on sellin' books instead of ploughin' and mowin'."
Sober, he was a sulky, domineering brute with the instincts of a bully. In liquor, the least difference of opinion became for him a cause of quarrel. Most men gave him a wide berth, and for the sake of peace accepted sneers and insults that made the blood boil. "Where you been all this time?" he growled. "Ploughin' around over the plains." "Didn't you hear me callin'?" "D'you call?
He played "Little Drops o' Brandy" three times, right through, without variations, blinking solemnly the while; then he put the violin carefully back in its box, and started to cut up another pipeful. "You should have gone, Johnny," said the haggard little woman. "Rackin' the horse out a night like this," retorted Johnny, "and startin' ploughin' to-morrow. It ain't worth while.
I wouldn't want to represent Josiah lots of times, breakin' colts, ploughin' greensward, cuttin' cord-wood etc., etc. Men and wimmen want equal legal rights to represent themselves and their own sex which are different, and always must be, and both sexes don't want to be hampered and sot down on by the other one. That is gauldin' to human nater, male or female.
Then, with a gesture that dismissed the tactful interruption, "I mayn't know much about ploughin', though it sticks in my mind that as between us the judges handed me the stakes, even at that. But at handlin' a boat one o' these here dingheys if you will, an' if you care to make good your words " "What was my words?" "Oh, I beg pardon." 'Bias corrected himself with a snort of contempt.
"Ploughin'. Say, didn't you ever see a man ploughin' before?" "Only in the movies," said Annie, unabashed. "Do you ever plough?" He laughed outright. "Say, you're going to be some little farmer's wife. I can see that. Yes'm, I plough a little now and then. It's like fancywork awful fascinating and once you get started you don't want to stop till you get a whole field done." "Quit kidding."
"We'll pull y' through somehow till next harvest. He's agreed t' hire it ploughed, an' you can earn a hundred dollars ploughin' an' y' c'n git the seed o' me, an' pay me back when y' can." Haskins was silent with emotion, but at last he said, "I ain't got nothin' t' live on." "Now, don't you worry 'bout that. You jest make your headquarters at ol' Steve Council's.
It's hard work enough for a man to get clothes and victuals off a farm in West Connecticut; it's up-hill work always; and then a man can turn to, himself, to ploughin' and mowin'; but a woman a'n't of no use, except to tell folks what to do; and everybody knows it's no way to have a thing done, to send.
"Salute yo' pahtners; balance all!" and the dance began. "Swing corners! Fust fo' for'ards, en back agin!" "Faster, Unc' Mack!" cried Sarah Wambush, as she swung past the old negro. "That hain't the right time!" "Wait till he gets limbered up," cried Frank Hansard across to her. "He hain't drawed a bow in two weeks, an' has been ploughin' a two-hoss turnover."
"Say his own chil'n air 'hearty feeders an' hard on shoe-leather? Takes a good deal o' goadin' ter git ploughin' enough fur the wuth o' feed out'n a toler'ble beastis like old Blaze-face thar, don't it, Neighbor? an' how is it a-goin' ter be with a human ez mebbe will hold back an' air sot agin plough-in' ennyhow, an' air sorter idle by profession?
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