We went to Pasages, less than a hour’s drive, to see the very place where Lafayette sot sail to help us git our freedom.
I had so many emotions here, as I viewed this spot, that I breathed hard, and had to restrain myself to keep a composure on the outside.
On the way back we met lots of their heavey, rough carts, drawed by an ox and a cow lashed together by ropes wound round their horns, and then hitched to the cart.
Heavey, rough carts, drawed by an ox and a cow lashed together by ropes wound round their horns.
As Josiah see this, he sez, “There, Samantha, you can see the practical workin’s of wimmen’s rights.” Sez he, “I say a cow has done all she ort to when she’s gin a good pail of milk; she ortn’t to plough and reap too.”
That speech kinder dumbfoundered me for a spell. It wuz the smartest thing my pardner had sed for over a year and a half. But, after considerin’ on’t for a spell, I sez—
“Josiah, that hain’t so deep a speech as you’d think it wuz from considerin’ it from jest on the outside. The cases are different,” sez I. “The cow helps draw the cart, both equal; but the cow don’t have to pay taxes and the ox can’t make laws that hang her and rob her, etc.”
But still, in my own mind, I did admire my pardner’s observation, and admired him considerable for thinkin’ on’t. It showed high gallantry, too, and devotion to females; I felt quite proud on him for pretty nigh half a day.
On one excursion that Martin wanted to make I wuz more’n willin’ to accompany and go with him—that wuz to Azpeitia, a little village 25 miles from San Sebastian; but its bein’ a mountain road, it took us about all day to go and come.