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 and this time made a fine-looking fellow, and put him into garden number two. But he grumbled also, till he grew red in the face, scaled the walls, and went for the woods. Failure number two. Again they made another man; but he knew at once what he wanted, and so kept continually crying, "Woh-zoe! woh-zoe!" which in the Edenic language signifies "Woman, woman!" "Sure enough," said Elohim, "he very naturally wants a wife!" But where to get one was the difficulty; seeing that it took thirty thousand years to collect materials to make three coarse men, it would take ten times as long to find the wherewith to make one fine woman. At last one of them suggested making her out of a part of a man, and, acting thereupon, they straightway put the three men asleep, took a rib from each, and thereof made three females or woh-zoes, which means woman, seeing that she was taken out of man. Now when the three men woke up, they were surprised and delighted exceedingly. The black man took his Dinah to Africa, and stayed there; the red man took his squaw to America; the white man was so delighted with his sweetheart that he began to whistle "Over the hills and far away," with variations on "Yankee Doodle," and "Push along, keep moving," and he has kept moving from that day to this, evincing his superiority to the other two by demonstrating practically that though a rolling stone gathers no moss, yet a travelling man gains knowledge. In proof of which, the white man to-day is master of the world, and says, does, and knows just twice as much as both the others combined. The white woman is chief of all women, as the white man is unquestioned king of all who wear the human form; and yet, wise and knowing as he undoubtedly is, he has yet to learn a thing or two about women.

Among other errors concerning her, now prevalent, is the absurd idea, that, sex excepted, she is precisely what man is, in all respects whatever; while the truth of the case is, that in all respects she is his opposite and counterpart, mentally, socially, physically, aesthetically, physiologically, anatomically, magnetically, electrically, chemically, and mechanically; and to regard her as being but a softer, finer, more delicate sort of man, or male, is not only a grave mistake, but one that does her rank injustice. And yet how many thousands of men fall headlong into it, and during the whole course of their lives are stone blind to some of the most