Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-05-03
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'eefhed Then I ssse YOU ip, ADM
! s.But ifs.a wonian you'n spoke well
On. Bartie; 'csa,d Mr.. Royser. s'.Cone,
now, you Gamma dray back; you said
once as women wouldna ha' been bad
invention in they been all ike Dinah."
'sdrI meant her voice, mani meant
her voice. that was al, said Rartle. al
eau't- bear to hear her speak without
wanting to put wool in my ears. As for
other things, l daressy she's like the
rest O the women-thinks two and two
III come to make FIVE, If she cries and
bothers enough about it, ...s ....
"Ay, ay!" said Mrs. Poyser; zone
'ud think, an hear some folk talk, as
the men war cute enough to count the
corns in bag o wheat wi only smell
ling at it. They can see through barn
door, they can. Perhaps that's the rea-
son they can, see SO little O. this side
ont"
Martin Poyser shook with delighted
laughter, and winked at Adam, as much
as to say the schoolmaster was in for it
now .. .t.- ..1
"AhW SAID Bartle sneeringly, "the
women are quick enough-they re quick
enough. They know the rights of
story before they hear it, and can tell
man what his thoughts are before he
knows 'em himself" ......
Like enough, said Mrs. Poyser; ''for
the men are mostly so slow. their
thoughts overrun 'em. an they can only
catch 'em by the tail. can count a
stocking-top while a mans getting's
tongue ready: an when he out WI his
speech at last, there's little broth to be
made on Z. It's your dead chicks take
the longest hatchin.' Howiver, I'm not
denyin' the women are foolish: God Al
mighty made 'em to match the men,"
I "Match v' said Bartle; 'say, as vine-
gar matches ones teeth. Ifa man SAYS
a word, his wife ell match 1t with a
contradiction: If he's a mind for hot
meat, his wife I'll match il with cold
bacon: if he laughs she II match him
with whimpering. Shes such xmatch
as the horse-fp is to tn horse; she's got
the right venom to sting him with-the
right venom to sting him with"
Yes said Mrs. Poyser, 81 know
what the men hke-a poor soft, as nd
simper at 'cm like the pictur O. the sun
whether they did right or wrong, an
say thank you for kick, an pretend
she didna know which end she stood
uppermost, till her husband told her.
That's what man wants in wife,
mostly; he wants TO make sure o. one
fool as III tell him he's wise. But there 9
some men can do wi'out that--thev
think so much o. themselves a'readv-
an that's how it 10 there old bache-
lors." IS. 81 cu..-.pl ..L. ...
"Come, Craig" said Mr.. Poyser. jo-
coseiy, "you nun get married pretty
quick, else you'll be set down for an old
bachelor; an you see what the women
'ull think on YOU" .>er'' .l-s ~.
"Well.' said Mr.. Craig, willing to
conciliate Mrs. Poyser, and setting q
high value on his own compliments, II
like. cleverish woman-a woman o.
sperrit-a managing woman" --
"You're out there. Craig" said Bar
tie drily; you're out there. Youjudge
o. your garden stuff on better plan
than that; you pick the things for what
they can excel in-for what they can
excel in. You don't value your peas
for their roots, or your carrots for their
flowers. Now that's the way you should
choose women; their cleverness II never
come to much-never come to much:
but they make excellent simpletons,
ripe and strong favored .'.f-. r.s'
"What dost say to that ~ said Mr..
Poyser, throwing himself back, aud
looking merrily at his wife. ~ @9H.uq
''Say !" answered Mrs. Poyser, with
dangerous FIRE -kindling in her eve;
''why, say as some folks tongues are
like the clocks that run on strikin', not
to tell you the time o. the day, but be-
cause there's sumn,at wrong 7 their in
side" ."-George Elliot. = t7@..
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