Danby for instance, he's a fine lump of a man, but w'en I was a girl I
wouldn't have made toe-rags of a policeman."

"Yes, a blessed feller strollin' up and down the street lookin' at his
toes or runnin' in a drunk. I say, did you hear the latest about old
Rooney-Molyneux? He didn't believe in women having the vote, didn't
consider they had intellect to vote, so _he_ says (not as much brain
as he has, don't you see, to marry a woman, and a baby to be coming
and nothing to put on its back, while he strolls round and gets
drunk), but now they've got the vote, he says (the great Lord Muck
Rooney-Molyneux says it, remember) that it is their _duty_ to use it,
and he intends to _make_ (mind you, _make_; I'd like to hear a man say
he'd _make_ me do anything; I'd scald him, see if I wouldn't, and
that's what wants doing with half the men anyhow, for the way they
carry on to women), and he's going to _make_ his wife go round
canvassing, _Now_! Men make me sick; w'en they're boys they're that
troublesome they ought to be kep' under a tub, and we'n they get older
they're that cantankerous and self-important they all want killin'
off."

"I'll bet Mrs Rooney won't be workin' for a different man to him. If
her convictions led her that way, you'd see he'd have a flute about
her not bein' fit to be out of her home," said grandma astutely.

"Yes, that's the way with 'em; first they thought the world would
tumble to pieces if women stirred out of the house for a minute to
vote, and now that we've got the vote in spite of them, they'd make
their wives walk round after votes for their side whether they was
able or not."

"They kicked agen us having the vote, and now we've got it they think
we ought to vote with them like as if we was a appendage of theirs;
men will be learnt different to that by-and-by, but it's best to go
gradual; they've had as much as they can swaller for a time."

"Ain't it just the very devil to them to think women is considered as
important as themselves now, instead of something they could just do
as they like with? Old Hollis there says he won't vote this year
because the women have one. Did you ever hear of an insult like that?
He says the monkeys will have a vote next, and that shows you what men
think of women,--like as if they was some sort of animals."

"Well, if you ask me," said grandma, "the monkeys have been havin' a
vote all along in the case of old Hollis."

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