I can't do it in politics, that's the worst of it.

But here's the man that's going to do it for me.

Here's the man!" The Crows looked at the pretendant, as in duty bound, but not any longer than they could help.
"Why, I guess you were at school with Elmore ?" said Crow, as if the idea had just struck him.
"He may be right peart, for all that," said Elmore's mother, and Elmore, himself, entering with two leading Liberals of Jordanville, effected a diversion, under cover of which Mrs Crow escaped, to superintend, with Bella, the last touches to the supper in the kitchen.
Politics in and about Jordanville were accepted as a purely masculine interest.

If you had asked Mrs Crow to take a hand in them she would have thanked you with sarcasm, and said she thought she had about enough to do as it was.

The school-house, on the night of such a meeting as this, was recognized to be no place for ladies.