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First Line: Please note this little fact, I beg: it is the
Last Line: Softly smiles, for she's content with a reflected glory.
Subject(s): Housewives; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


PLEASE note this little fact, I beg: It is the hen that lays the egg; the
rooster does the yelling; he flaps his silly wings and crows, and points with
pride a while, and throws some fits around your dwelling. And every time I hear

him whoop, and prance around the chicken-coop, a-feeling hunkydory, I think of
husbands I have known, who think that they, and they alone, deserve the praise
and glory. They would ignore the patient wives who organized their misfit lives,

when they were badly sagging, who bore the burden of the day, and helped to cut

the swath of hay of which the hubs are bragging. There's many a fellow known to

fame who would have failed to win the game, but for some little woman, who,
staying humbly in the dark, still made her old man toe the mark, with patience
superhuman. And, having climbed from out the ruts, how haughtily that old man
struts, how proudly tells his story! The wife beholds that crowing gent, and
softly smiles, for she's content with a reflected glory.





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