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The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Little Question in Ladies' Rights, by Parker Fillmore, Illustrated by Rose Cecil O'Neill
Title: A Little Question in Ladies' Rights
Author: Parker Fillmore
Release Date: February 28, 2010 [eBook #31451]
Language: English
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A LITTLE QUESTION
IN LADIES' RIGHTS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE HICKORY LIMB
"The joyful pathos is so true that it chokes you all up but leaves you happy, and one likes to be left happy."
"An hour of amusement, a series of laughs from the heart out and a pleasant vista backward to the days of childhood will come to the reader of 'The Hickory Limb.'"
NEW YORK
A LITTLE QUESTION
IN LADIES' RIGHTS
By
PARKER H. FILLMORE
"THE ROSIE WORLD," ETC.
Illustrations by
ROSE CECIL O'NEILL
JOHN LANE COMPANY
MCMXVI
By John Lane Company
Copyright, 1916,
By John Lane Company
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| "What's the matter, Margery?" "Nothing. I'm just waiting." | Frontispiece |
| PAGE | |
| "I'm only the hired girl!" | 19 |
| "Margery, do you see him? The bees are after him!" | 30 |
A LITTLE QUESTION IN
LADIES' RIGHTS
PART ONE
"What's the matter, Margery?"
"Nothing. I'm just waiting."
"What for?"
There was no reason for telling Willie Jones, but, by the same token, there was no reason for not telling him. So Margery answered frankly:
"I et a whole bagful of bananas and now Effie says I'm going to be sick and thr'up. So I'm just waiting."
"Whew! How many was they, Margery?"
"I don't know, but a good many."
"Think you might have shared with a fella."
"Well, you see, Willie, I didn't know anything about them. None of us did. I thought I smelled something good in the pantry, and when Effie went upstairs I sneaked in to see. Sure enough, there was a bag of bananas, real soft and sweet, don't you know. I et one and then I et another and, before I knew it, they were all gone. Then Effie caught me as I was coming out."
"Will she tell on you?"
"No, I don't think she'll tell on me. But she says I'm going to be awful sick. I was once before. So I'm just waiting."
"Aw, you're not going to be sick, Margery. That's only Effie's bluff. Listen: I'm going out blackberrying. There are just dead loads of great big ripe ones on the graveyard patch. My mother'll give me ten cents if I bring her back two quarts."
Margery looked at the tin pail longingly. She, too, would go blackberrying, but she realized that home was the best place for sick folk.
"Aw, come on," Willie urged. "You're not going to be sick. I bet anything you're not."
Confidence begets confidence, and, looking at Willie Jones's tin pail, Margery began to wonder whether, after all, Effie's prophecy might not prove a false one.
"I tell you what, Willie: Wait a minute and I'll ask Effie."
"Why do you got to ask her?"
"Because mother's not home. Besides, if I do get sick, I'll want Effie to take care of me."
This last was too sound a reason for Willie to gainsay, so Margery called Effie to the kitchen door.
"Blackberryin'! And in the sun!" Effie repeated, when Margery had delivered herself. "Well, I guess not! Here you are just stuffed