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Updated: June 9, 2025
I 'clare, she jest keep the whole lot o' ouah chickens wore down to a frazzle, she traipsin 'roun' all the time, an' them a-follerin' her. Jess like some womenfolks. They gad 'roun' so much they kain't git no flesh ontoe 'em.
Amarita made a picture of childlike misery. Her eyes had the piteous look of coming tears, and she swallowed once or twice before speech was possible. "O Elihu," she breathed, "you don't really s'pose that, do you?" "Course he will," said Elihu. "That's the way they do come drivin' along a time o' day when there's no menfolks to home, and take in the womenfolks.
"Let's leave my sister out of it," he said at length deliberately. And Cecille's cheeks were still pale from his tone when they arrived back at the apartment. "That was a bad crack you made," Felicity told her then. "I I didn't know." "They don't like to discuss their own womenfolks with girls like us." "Oh!" The exclamation was little more than a whisper. "But no harm done," airily.
But those two! Pshaw! It was like they had known each other always. It was like 'Bob's' mother and me when we first met; her beautiful and fine and educated, and me rough and awkward. Only Buddy's a better boy than I was. He's got more in him. I s'pose all womenfolks have that mother feeling that makes 'em yearn over the unlikeliest fellers."
"Womenfolks makes splendid Shakers," he was wont to say. "They're all right as Sisters, 'cause their belief makes 'em safe.
Mebbe there's a few womenfolks in there enough for pepper 'n' salt if they ain't bound for town meetin'." Elihu drew the long breath which is the due of happily completed toil. He began to roll up his plans. Amarita ran to him and looked over his shoulder. "You got 'em done?" she asked. The red in her cheeks had heightened. Her voice came huskily.
He expected to find in her a pretty little plaything, and began to realize that instead he had got growing up in his house a small person whom he had to respect, a manager. He went off to the town with just as uncomfortable a conscience as before, and growled in his red beard at womenfolks that put on airs, whom a man would have to show their place or send to the devil.
If you don't come over, she'll wonder why, and mother'll wonder why, and mother'll ask me, and, oh, dear! dear!" Jerry thought she really was going to cry, this time, and it seemed to him that these domestic whirlwinds furnished ample reason for it. "Course!" he said, in whole-hearted misery for her. "It's a bad place. A man wouldn't think anything of it, but womenfolks are different.
Bill an' I sot all day in the woodshed, holdin' hands an' lookin' away from each other, so; never said a word; jest sot there, sympathizin' an' holdin' hands. If we 'd been women, Bill an' I would uv cried an' beat our forrids an' hung round each other's neck, like the womenfolks done. Bein' we wuz men, we jest set there in the woodshed, away from all the rest, holdin' hands an' sympathizin'.
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 and 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, and he sings a tenor song about love.
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