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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Women have a soft side, and men come up on that side and take advantage and Joe Harnden's mealy mouth has always served him well with his womenfolks but I do hope Vona Harnden has got done being fool enough to galley-slave and sacrifice for the rest of her life," sputtered the dame. "Britt for her? Fs-s-sh!" Her hiss of disgust was prolonged. Then she rattled the dice more vigorously.
In spite of age and misfortunes, the liberal attitude of these western members of the family was always a matter of perplexity to Edward. "He tells me they're going to give women the ballot, doesn't appear to be much concerned about his own womenfolks going to the polls." "Why shouldn't they, if they want to?" Janet would exclaim, though she had given little thought to the question.
"Yes, ma'am, I struck out across the fields fo' home, I didn't wish to hear no mo' of that loose kind of talk. When I got home I found my old daddy setting up afo' the fire, and he says, 'You come away early, son. I told him what Dave Blount had called me and he says, 'You acted like a gentleman, Bob, with all them womenfolks about." "You had a very good and sensible father, Mr. Yancy.
He looked forward every afternoon to these little exchanges of wit, and was depressed when for any reason the womenfolks were away.
Already the deacon's mare, with a wagon-load of the deacon's folks, had gone shambling past, head and tail drooping, clumsy hoofs kicking up clouds of dust, while the good deacon sat jerking the reins, in an automatic way, and the "womenfolks" patiently saw the dust settle upon their best summer finery.
He looked again at Harper, the rustler chief; at Slade, with his peculiar turtle-like face, Slade the cattle king the killer. Billie Warren stood between the two Epperson girls whose faces betrayed the taint of Indian blood, an arm about the shoulders of each of them. The sheriff who had said that men must humor womenfolks was leaning against the bar.
An' it's this part o' the pictur' that makes me homesick now and fills my heart with a longin' I never had before; an' yet it sort o' mellows an' comforts me, too. Miss Serena Cadwell, whose beau was killed in the war, plays on the melodeon, and we all sing, all on us, men, womenfolks, an' children. Sam Merritt is there, an' he sings a tenor song about love.
He finally got most of our neighbors into a state of whee-ho where the womenfolks made ascension robes for all concerned and the menfolks built a high platform and they all climbed up on it and waited all one night for Gabr'el's trump to sound." "What's that got to do with this town?" demanded Mr. Bangs, impatiently.
"Why, Curly!" like he was surprised. "Is it like that?" "That's what it's like," says I. "Don't never doubt we can take care of our womenfolks. It's my own fault this has happened. I ought to of watched her closter. I ought never to of allowed you on our dock, let alone mixing with you. I thought you was more of a man than this," says I.
When you die we shall have no more good walking clothes for our womenfolks." "And when Schoppenvoll dies we have no more good wine," declared Ersten with conviction and a wave of his hand as Schoppenvoll approached them with an inordinately long-necked bottle, balancing it carefully on its side. Johnny had drawn near the table now, but no one saw him, for this moment was one of deep gravity.
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