"And not a mite of anything on their heads," says Miss Spink.

Sez I in sarcastical axents, "Do men have to go in low necks too?"

"No," says Miss Bobbet. "But they have to have the tails of their
coats kinder pinted. Why," sez she, "I hearn of a man that had
got clear to the incorporation and they wouldn't let him in
because his coat kinder rounded off round the bottom, so he went
out by the side of the road and pinned up his coat tails, into a
sort of a pinted shape, and good land the incorporation let him
right in, and never said a word."

I contended that these things wuzn't so, but I found it wuz the
prevailin' opinion. For when I went to see the dressmaker about
makin' me a dress for the occasion, I see she felt just like the
rest about it. My dress wuz a good black alpacky. I thought I
would have it begun along in the edge of the winter, when she
didn't have so much to do, and also to have it done on time. We
laid out to start on the follerin' July, and I felt that I wanted
everything ready.

I bought the dress the 7th day of November early in the forenoon,
the next day after my pardner consented to go, and give 65 cents a
yard for it, double wedth. I thought I could get it done on time,
dressmakers are drove a good deal. But I felt that a dressmaker
could commence a dress in November and get it done the follerin'
July, without no great strain bein' put onto her; and I am fur
from bein' the one to put strains onto wimmen, and hurry 'em
beyend their strength. But I felt Almily had time to make it on