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Updated: June 6, 2025
"When we men-folks heard that they was goin' to clean up on the inside we thought it wouldn't be no more than neighborly for us to pitch in and give you a hand with the outside." It was evident that the Captain did not relish the explanation, for he bristled with dangerous hostility as he took a step forward.
I dunno how you're goin' to git along with men-folks, if ye offer 'em the whip-hand. They'll take it, anyways. Well, don't you want to know where I come on this ring?" Letty had taken a few hasty steps toward the house. "Yes, I do," owned she, turning about. "Where was it?" "Well, Sammy was in swimmin', an' he dove into the Old Hole, to see 'f 't had any bottom to 't.
She looked annoyed and flurried, and was in no mood for the labors of preparing a second breakfast. "The men-folks had better not roil me up too much," she said to her daughter. "If your father had said No! out and out, I wouldn't have brought strangers into his home. But he kinder wanted me to have their money without the bother of having them around.
"Nothing else will," said Nan. "Tenney's got to give his consent. We can't do any kidnaping business. That's no good." She said it with the peremptory implication of extinguishing middle-aged scruples, and Raven also felt it to be "no good." "Very well," said he. "You know best. I'll go with you." "Oh, no, you won't. There are too many men-folks in it now. I'm going alone.
"Wouldn't it have been just perfect if we could have had the pews repainted before we laid the new carpet!" "It would, indeed," the president answered; "but it will take us all winter to pay for the present improvements, without any thought of fresh paint. If only we had a few more men-folks to help along!" "Or else none at all!" was Lobelia Brewster's suggestion.
And this makes me wonder if growing little men-Folks and women-Folks ever are determined to have their own way, no matter what the mother may say. I have an idea it is what is called the "smart age," when the young, whether fish, flesh, or fowl, start up all at once, and think they know more than "than all the ancients." I heard that expression used once, and it seemed somehow to fit in here.
Day's timid contribution to the argument. "I ain't a readin' man, but from what folks report I should think she was one o' them critters that set on rocks bewilderin' an' bedevilin' men-folks out o' their senses SYREENS, I think they call 'em; a reg'lar SYREEN is what that woman is, I guess!"
In her view men-folks were like floors, furniture and dishes. They were in the nature of a responsibility a tax upon women as it were. Every day she reminded me of the duty of keeping my body clean. Its members had often suffered the tyranny of the soaped hand at the side of the rain barrel.
"Law is law," broke in the unabashed representative of it, "and if the men-folks of this town ain't got the gumption to stand behind an officer " "Look here, Nute," gritted the Cap'n, "I'll stand behind you in about two seconds, and I'll be standin' on one foot, at that! Don't you go to castin' slurs on your betters.
But while he stood in piteous irresolution, there came out from the crowd that had gathered round, a stout, middle-aged woman, who said, in a voice that not only betokened the utmost confidence in herself, but also the assurance that all the world had confidence in her: "Here, give me the girl. What do you men-folks know about women?" "I declare, it's Mrs.
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