done lately to rile you up?"

   Sez I, "

    She

   wuz in the wrong on't in not lettin' wimmen set on the Conference."

   "Wall, I say

    he

   wuz right," sez Josiah. "

    He

   knew, and I knew, that wimmen wuzn't strong enough to set."

   "Why," sez I, "it don't take so much strength to set as it duz to stand up. And after workin' as hard as wimmen have for the Meetin' House, she ort to have the priveledge of settin'. And I am goin' to write out jest what I think about it."

   "Wall," sez Josiah, as he started for the barn with the hen feed, "don't be too severe with the Meetin' House."

   And then, after he went out, he opened the door agin and stuck his head in and sez:

   "Don't be too hard on

    him

   "

   And then he shet the door quick, before I could say a word. But good land! I didn't care. I knew I could say what I wanted to with my faithful pen—and I am bound to say it.

   JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE, Bonny View,

   near Adams, New York,

   Oct. 14th, 1890.

         CHAPTER XVIII.

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