A LITTLE QUESTION IN LADIES' RIGHTS
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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_
THE HICKORY LIMB
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[Illustration: "What's the matter, Margery?"
"Nothing. I'm just waiting."
(_See page 13_)]
A LITTLE QUESTION IN LADIES' RIGHTS
by
PARKER H. FILLMORE
Author of "The Hickory Limb," "The Rosie World," Etc.
Illustrations by Rose Cecil O'Neill
[Illustration]
New York John Lane Company MCMXVI
Copyright, 1911, By John Lane Company
Copyright, 1916, By John Lane Company
Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A.
_Note_: The first part of this story is reprinted from "The Young Idea," now out of print; the second part has never until now appeared in book form.
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
MARGERY was sitting under the cherry tree with a certain air of expectancy. She seemed to be waiting for something or some one. Willie Jones's head popped over the back fence and Willie Jones himself, a tin pail in one hand, dropped into the Blair yard and made for the cherry tree. But Margery still gazed earnestly, tensely, into nothing. Willie Jones, evidently, was not the object of her thoughts.
"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:
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Little Question in Ladies' Rights by Fillmore
- 2: Margery did not wish to offend Effie
- 3: Ye had better mind yir manners and ask for Miss McGinniss
- 4: Margery bent her head humbly under this tirade
- 5: The young gravedigger pounded on
- 6: The gravedigger was getting it worse than you
- 7: Margery concluded impressively
- 8: They found Effie with nose a tilt and eyes suspiciously red
- 9: Effie lingered a moment uncertainly
- 10: Do you want to spend your nickel
- 11: I got to see a fella down in East Maplewood
- 12: Addressed Margery What's the matter
- 13: Willie Jones spluttered with rage
- 14: For a moment Janet McFadden was silent
- 15: Margery alone had nothing to say
- 16: When that old Janet McFadden butted in
- 17: With all its fiery Janet McFaddens