You'd most probable be skairt into a fit if it should break loose and start off independent into space.

And it would take away all my enjoyment of such a pleasure excursion to see you a-layin' on the earth in a fit." Sez I, "It hain't vests or affection that holds you back, Josiah Allen--it's fear." "Fear!" sez he; "I don't know the meanin' of that word only from what I've read about it in the dictionary.

Men don't know what it is to be afraid, and that is why," sez he, "that I've always been so anxious to have wimmen keep in her own spear, where men could watch over her, humble, domestic, grateful.
"Nater plotted it so," sez he; "nater designs the male of creation to branch out, to venter, to labor, to dare, while the female stays to hum and tends to her children and the housework." Sez he, "In all the works of nater the females stay to hum, and the males soar out free.
"It is a sweet and solemn truth," sez he, "and female wimmen ort to lay it to heart.

In these latter days," sez he, "too many females are a-risin' up, and vainly a-tryin' to kick aginst this great law.

But they can't knock it over," sez he--"the female foot hain't strong enough." He wuz a-goin' on in this remarkably eloquent way on his congenial theme, but I kinder drawed him in by remindin' him of Miss Sheldon's tent we see in the Transportation Buildin'-- the one she used in her lonely journeyin' a-explorin' the Dark Continent.