How could I git it on time perched up there?
"I say it can't be done, and it is onreasonable for men to want it, and at the same time want wimmen to do her own housework.

For these men, every one on 'em, would act like fury if their house wuzn't clean and their clothes in order, and meals on time.

And you must know it would jest about kill a woman to be doin' all this and histin' herself up and down a hundred times a day, and mebby half dead with rumatiz too.

Why, it would be worse for me than all the rest of my work, and you hadn't ort to ask it of me." Josiah looked real huffy and sez, "I hain't the only man that's wantin' it done; men have always been sot on it.

There's been more'n a wagon load of poetry writ on it and you know it.