And raisin' chickens and washin' old trousers and overalls, and cleanin' sullers and paintin' floors and paperin', and droudgin' round all the time, as a woman has to to keep her house comfortable.
"And pickin' black-caps and strawberries, and churnin' big churnin's of butter, and pickin' wool, to say nothin' of onexpected company comin', and no girl.

Let a lot of company come to stay all day the relations on your side and the work not done, and me posin' like a statute, lookin' down on you and your sect, you'd feel like a fool and jaw, you know you would.

I presoom you'd throw your boot-jack at me and threaten to part with me, and how mean that would be in you when I did it at your request.

'Tain't anything any woman would go into if she wuz let alone." "And then think of the thrashers and silo fillers comin' in hungry as bears, what would they say?
No dinner cookin' and I on a pedestal, why it would be the town's talk.

Or you comin' home from Jonesville on a cold night fraxious as a dog and sayin' you should die off if you didn't have supper in ten minutes.