Don't it make you laugh?
It does me.

And you should see 'em swell round and air their troubles when most everybody knows just what's happened from the beginnin'! If it was any of my business, I'd let out and tell 'em so.
"What my John knows, I know; and what I know, he knows.

There's never been a time, and there ain't one now, when I'm beat out and my bones are hangin' stiff in me--and I get that way sometimes even now--that I don't go to John and say, 'John, dear, get yer arms around me and hold me tight, I'm that tired,' and down goes everything, and he's got my head on his shoulder and pattin' my cheeks, and up I get all made over new, and him too.

That's the way we get on, and that's the way they all ought to get on if--" She paused, stretching her neck as if for more air.
"God save me! Will ye hear me run on?
And ye sittin' there drinkin' it all in, not known' a word about the women and carin' less.

Ye've got to forgive me, for I'm like John's alarm-clock in this wife business, and when I'm wound up I keep strikin' until I run down.