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Eben Flanders wouldn't lie for anybody. But I'll bet Abagail Flanders beat our old revolutionary four-mothers in thinkin' out new laws, when she lay round under stairs and behind barrels in her night-gown. When a man hides his wife's stockin's and petticoats it is governin' without the consent of the governed.
And they said the same thought wuz a great comfort to him in his last moments. He died about a year after she did, leavin' his second wife with twins and a good property. Then there wuz Abagail Pester. She married a sort of a high-headed man, though one that paid his debts, wuz truthful, good lookin', and played well on the fiddle.
But in little ways, an' because it was secunt nature, just helpin', helpin', helpin' ... Mis' Holcomb-that-was-Mame-Bliss, Liddy Ember, Abagail Arnold an' her husband, that was alive then, hurryin' to open the home bakery to catch the funeral trade on the funeral's way back, Amanda an' Timothy Toplady rattlin' by in the wagon an' 'most likely scrappin' over the new springs ... an' all of 'em salt good at heart.
"Why, their names grow worse, and worse the farther you go down the hall!" cried Sprite. "Why no they don't," said Gwen, "for over on this wall, the first picture, this one of the lady with the dog is called Lucretia, and that next one's name was Abagail." "Well, their gowns are lovely," said Sprite, "but didn't they use to have just horrid names?"
Eben Flanders wouldn't lie for anybody. But I'll bet that Abagail Flanders beat our old Revolutionary 4 mothers in thinkin' out new laws, when she lay round under stairs, and behind barrells, in her nightdress. You see, when a man hides his wive's corset and petticoat, it is governin' without the "consent of the governed."
I told over all her sufferin's and wrongs from the Rings and from not havin' her rights, and all her sister's Azuba Clapsaddle's, and her Aunt Cassandra Keeler's, and Hulda and Drusilly's and Abagail Flanderses injustices and sufferin's.
Why, it seemed as if he had almost every qualification for makin' a woman happy, only he had jest this one little excentricity, that man would lock up Abagail Burpy's clothes every time he got mad at her. Of course the law give her clothes to him; and knowin' it was one of the laws of the United States, she wouldn't have complained only when she had company.
"Thank fortune, I have always kept the law." And they said the same thought wus a great comfort to him in his last moments. He died about a year after she did, leaving his 2nd wife with twins and a good property. Then, there was Abagail Burpy. She married a sort of a high-headed man, though one that paid his debts, and was truthful, and considerable good- lookin', and played well on the fiddle.
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