parlyzed

Updated: May 10, 2025

Have you a leanin' toward Natural history, madam? Have you ever studied into the habits and traits of our American Wad?" "What?" sez I. For truly a woman's curosity, however parlyzed by just indignation, can stand only just so much strain. "The what?" "The wad. The animal from which is obtained the valuable fur that tailors make so much use of." Sez I, "Do you mean waddin' eight cents a sheet?"

Marietta Holley - Samantha on the Woman Question