been but few of the women folk who have had their say, and
methinks that i is very strange and unaccountable, for
nearly always they have plenty to speak in their own
behalf.”
All who sat there in Twilight Land laughed, and even
Patient Grizzle smiled.
“Very well,” said Patient Grizzle, if you will have tt, I
will tell you a story. It is about a fisherman who was
married and had a wife of his own, and who made her
carry all the load of everything that happened to him. For
he, like most men I wot of, had found out—

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