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Marietta Holley
My Wayward Pardner; or, My Trials with Josiah, America, the Widow Bump, and Etcetery
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338088192
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PREFACE.
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I told Josiah that I guessed I would write a book about several things—and wimmen. Says I, “My mind has been dretful agitated lately about that certain lot of female wimmen that are sufferin’ more than tongue can tell. Why,” says I, “when I think of their agony and wrongs, it fairly makes the blood bile in my veins. I love the female sect,” says I firmly, “I am one of ’em myself.”
Says he (not wantin’ me to say a word about it), “Let ’em write about it themselves.”
Says I, “Josiah Allen, do you remember when you fell down through the barn and broke your limb, and most broke your other leg?”
“Yes,” says he, “but what of it?”
Says I, “What if I had stood still in the buttery winder, and hollered at you to help yourself, and if you was in pain to get out of it?”