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I wusn’t thinkin’ ’bout that so much as this everlastin’ rain! I’d think it ’ld git out o’ water some time an’ stop! We hain’t had three hours o’ sunshine on a stretch in over a month!

Well, I wouldn’t lose heart jist because you’ve had a few turkeys drabbled! Think what a time old Noah’s wife had a-roundin’ up her menagery! [ goes to the fireplace and begins fumbling with the kindling.] What in the nation are you a-buildin’ a fire fer? You am’t cold?

No, but the air feels damp. An’ everything in the house molds so if I don’t dry it out once an’ a while!

Then lemme start it fer you! [He takes the kindling and proceeds to lay the fire.] I never seed a woman yit that could build a fire ’thout gittin’ it catawampused!

I’ve noticed that all the things that men want to do are a man’s Job; an’ them they don’t, like washin’ dishes an’ milkin’, are a woman’s.