Lorinda wuz dretful glad to see us and so wuz her husband and Polly. But
the Reunion had to be put off on account of a spell her husband wuz havin'.
Lorinda said she could not face such a big company as she'd invited while
Hiram wuz havin' a spell, and I agreed with her.

Sez I, "Never, never, would I have invited company whilst Josiah wuz
sufferin' with one of his cricks."

Men hain't patient under pain, and outsiders hain't no bizness to hear
things they say and tell on 'em. So Polly had to write to the relations
puttin' off the Reunion for one week. But Lorinda kep' on cookin' fruit
cake and such that would keep, she had plenty of help, but loved to do her
company cookin' herself. And seein' the Reunion wuz postponed and Lorinda
had time on her hands, I proposed she should go with me to the big out-door
meetin' of the Suffragists, which wuz held in a nigh-by city.

"Good land!" sez she, "nothin' would tempt me to patronize anything so
brazen and onwomanly as a out-door meetin' of wimmen, and so onhealthy and
immodest." I see she looked reproachfully at Polly as she said it. Polly
wuz arrangin' some posies in a vase, and looked as sweet as the posies did,
but considerable firm too, and I see from Lorinda's looks that Polly wuz
one who had to leave father and mother for principle's sake.

But I sez, "You're cookin' this minute, Lorinda, for a out-door meetin'"
(she wuz makin' angel cake). "And why is this meetin' any more onwomanly or
immodest than the camp-meetin' where you wuz converted, and baptized the
next Sunday in the creek?"