and sweep and mend and do for four men, and tend the chickens, and hoe the garden, and help milk the cows. And I'm getting tired of being a free waitress for city autoists on top of that!"
Well, there may have been a certain modicum of reason to what she said.
I tell you, George, I'm always the first to open his heart and purse-strings to the call of the poor and needy. Why say, here just a couple of months ago, we took up a collection at the Kiwanis Club to buy a newsboy a suit of clothes. But same time—
Why do these hicks insist on giving themselves away? Why can't they try to learn nice manners, like you and I do?
What I'd 've liked to do was to give her one quick wallop on the jaw, but I just raised my hat again, like I was the Beau of Brummel, and I says, "I am very sorry to have bothered you, madam! Good afternoon!"
And I marched off and never looked back once! I'll bet she felt ashamed, and I hope to God she did!
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