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I'm thinkin' 'at if there was a small chairge for admission the Home could be made self-supportin'. Losh! to think 'at if there had been sic an institootion in his time a man micht hae sat on the bit dyke and watched Robbie Burns danderin' roond the " "You would divide the Home into suites of rooms, so that every inmate would have his own apartments?" "Not by no means; na, na.
Then lie told me who the people was and a lot about 'em, and then they all got to talkin' and a woman was there who believed in women votin' and being self-supportin' and not dependin' on their husbands, and I said I thought a self-supportin' wife was as much use as a self-rockin' cradle.
From now I pays the union schedoole, the same bein' five cents a thousand ems more than former. The Coyote as yet is not self-supportin', but that shall not affect this play.
"Folks thought that would end the thing, because it wouldn't be self-supportin', but Jotham had different idees. He simply moved his pool tables and truck up from the old shop, and now he's got the finest place of the kind on the Cape, rent free. "'I told you 'twould make a good billiard saloon, didn't I, Bailey? he says, chucklin'. "'Jotham, says I, 'of your kind you're a perfect wonder.
We could keep tab on the customers then, and build up a good trade. All on earth we need is just a little capital, an' we'd be a self-supportin' couple inside a week." So convincing were Phineas' arguments, that in the end Myrtella consented to act as deus ex machina for the new psychical venture, on condition that Chick should be properly clothed, and fed, and made to go to school.
"Guess we'll have this yer feller for dinner," he said; "stewed with plenty of onions an' some taters." "You see," observed Kiddie, "we're already beginnin' ter be self-supportin'. Fish, meat, honey there wasn't any occasion t' bring a butcher's shop along with us. We c'd even make our own bread at a pinch. I'm plannin' ter make a fruit pudding.
"Don't speak so loud, you'll wake the baby. You buy the things, Mehit. I'll see that they're paid for." "How your mother'd love that!" "My mother will have nothing to do with it." "Why, you ain't even self-supportin' yet," declared Miss Upton bluntly. "'T ain't anything to your discredit, of course; you ain't ready," she added kindly.
"That leaves us only four men to work the cradles," I objected. "Four men out of nine working." "Well, thar won't be no men out of nine a-workin' if you don't watch out," predicted Bagsby. "You-all forgit this is a self-supportin' community. We got to work for our living, as well as for gold." "The hunters might go out less," suggested McNally.
If, after say five years, they weren't self-supportin', we could withdraw the appropriation and let them shift for themselves. The plan might succeed and it might not. We'd be doin' our duty anyhow. Some persons might say: "But how about it if the hayseed politicians moved down here and went in to get control of the government of the new state?"
"I know there's been lots of objections to the mothers of some of my babies comin' to the neighborhood; but the ones that's willin' to come are the ones who's wantin' a chance to become self-supportin', self-respectin' women; and that's what most women want jest a chance.
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