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Mary Minds Her Business

CHAPTER XXIII
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There is just so much work that has to be done in the world every day, so we can all be fed and clothed, and have those things which we need to make us happy.

Now everybody in this room knows that 'many hands make light work.' So, don't you see?
The more who work, the easier it will be for everybody." But the spokesman only smiled at this--that smile which always meant to Mary, "No use talking to a woman"-- and aloud he said, "Well, as I told you before, we weren't sent to argue.

We only came to tell you what the automatic hands were going to do if these four women weren't laid off." "I understand," said Mary; and turning to the four she asked, "How do you feel about it ?" "I suppose we'll have to go," said Mrs.Ridge, her face red but her back straighter then ever.

"I guess it was our misfortune, Miss Spencer, that we were born women.

It seems to me we always get the worst end of it, though I'm sure I don't know why.


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