WAITING FOR A LIGHT.]
* * * * *
HIRAM GREEN AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
His Experience with the Advocates of the 10th Amendment.
On the last eleckshun day, I was servin as Inspecter of Eleckshun, when
a passil of wimmen, drest partly in men's habiliments, walkt up to the
ballit box.
They was headed by old SARY YOOMANS, who has been an old made for more'n
1/2 Sentury.
Steppin up close to the railin where votes is put in, Miss YOOMANS thus
to me did say:--
"Square GREEN, wee've come to cast the soffrige of a down-trodden race:
Will you receive our votes?"
"Not exzactly I wont, my hi toned Greshun benders," was my reply.
"Do you know who we air, sir?" cride a long, leen, lank,
rale-fence-lookin femail, whose nose looked as if sheed been sokin it in
a bladder of black snuff.
"Well! sweet wolfs in lambs clothin," said I, puttin on one of my
shrewed expreshuns, "you look as if you was a lot of, so-called,
strong-minded femails, who was up to snuff, but, in an endevor to
scratch somebody bare-boned, you'd lost your footin, and tumbled
slap-bang into a coal-hole."
"We air, sir," says another ethereal-lookin hearthstun depopulater,
"members of the Skeensboro Sore-eye-siss Society. We believe wimmens has
got rites, which man won't let her have.
Pages:
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56