Others noticed this also, among them Dr. Allen and Abe Lincoln. But they make no comment as they walked down the roadway together.
"WHO'S AFRAID?"
It was Sis Rutledge who broke the news to Abe Lincoln that Ann said he was afraid of women. She went over to the store on an errand and tarried a few moments, as she always did when an excuse offered, to talk with the tall, good-natured clerk. This time Mrs. Green's quilting-bee offered an excuse.
"Goin' to Mis' Green's quiltin'-bee, are you?" Sis questioned with a sort of malicious innocence.
"Men don't go to quiltin'-bees," Abe Lincoln answered.
"They walk as fur as the door," Sis said. "But you ain't like none of the rest of them. You don't spark none of the girls, nor take none of them to quiltin'-bees nor sugar parties nor nothing. Ann says you're scared of petticoats."
"Ann Rutledge says I'm afraid of petticoats, eh? Tell Ann I'm comin' by this evenin' to see her."