curious to me that they should act so in this one thing. For men ort to be
more honest and open than wimmen. They hain't had to cajole and wheedle and
use little trickeries and deceits and indirect ways as wimmen have. Why,
cramp a tree limb and see if it will grow as straight and vigorous as it
would in full freedom and sunshine.

"Men ort to be nobler than women, sincerer, braver. And they ort to be
ashamed of this one trick of theirn, for they know they hain't honest in
it, they hain't generous. Give wimmen two or three generations of moral and
legal freedom and see if men will laugh at 'em for their little deceits and
affectations. No, men will be gentler, and wimmen nobler, and they will
both come nearer bein' angels, though most probable they won't be any too
good then, I hain't a mite afraid of it."




VI

"CONCERNING MOTH-MILLERS AND MINNY FISH"


The Senator kinder sithed, and that sithe sort o' brought me down onto my
feet agin as it were, and a sense of my duty, and I spoke out agin:

"Can you and will you do Serepta's errents?"

He evaded a direct answer by sayin', "As you alluded to the little indirect
ways of women, dearest madam, you will pardon me for saying that it is
my belief that the soft gentle brains of females are unfitted for the