a, her eyes flashing a challenge, while
her faithful guardswomen, Carry and Dawn, suspended work to see how
the argument ended.

"For the look of the thing to start with. It don't look well to see
the wimmen of the family goin' agen the men."

"No, it don't look like Nature as men make believe it ought to be, for
once to see a woman have a opinion of her own, and not the man just
telling that his opinion wuz hers too, without knowing anythink about
it, an' women having to hold their tongue for peace' sake because they
wasn't in a position to help theirselves. An' if it seems so dreadful
that way, you better come over to our side, as there's more of us than
you, an' majority ought to rule."

"What did you do at _your_ meeting last night, uncle?" inquired Dawn.

"Old Hollis is head of the committee, an' he says the first thing for
all the committee men to do was to see the women of the men goin' for
Henderson was the same way," he replied.

"Oh, an' so you thought you could come the Czar on us, did you? an'
the Government, accordin' to Hollis's make out, is a fool to give
women a vote; like in your case instead of giving me an' Carry a vote
each, it ought to have give you three."

"Oh, Mr Sorrel!" said I, "what a joke! Was he really so ignorant as
that; surely he was joking too?"

Uncle Jake had sufficient wit to take this opportunity of changing his
tactics.

"No," he said, "some people is terrible narrer; for my part I always
believe in wimmen holdin' their own opinion."

"So long as they didn't run contrary to yours," said grandma with a
sniff. "There's heaps more like you. Women can always think as much as
they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they
bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an'
they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any
practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature."

Uncle Jake was outdone and relapsed into silence.

"An' that's just what I would have expected of old Hollis," continued
grandma, who seemed to have a knowledge of people's doings rivalling
that necessary to an efficient police officer. "I'll tell you what he
is," and the old dame directed her remarks to me. "He is the old chap
Mrs Bray was sayin' ain't goin' to vote this time because the women
has got one and the monkeys will be havin' one next. Just what the
likes of him would say! He's a old crawler whose wife does all the
work while