Now, King or Emperor don't strike the same breathless terror; but Rager--why, jest the name is enough to make 'em behave." "Wall," sez I, "if the Monarch of Ingy is here I must see him, and git him not to burn any more widders with their dead pardners." Sez I, "It's a clear waste of widders, besides bein' wicked as wicked can be.

Widders is handy," sez I, "now to keep boardin'-housen, or to go round as agents.

Old maids hain't nothin' by the side of 'em, and they look so sort o' respectable behind their black veils, and then they are needed so for the widdower supply--and that market is always full." Sez I, "I don't want 'em wasted, and I want the wickedness to be stopped.
"And then to insist on marryin' so many wimmen.

I'd love to labor with him, and convince him that one's enough." "It seems to me," sez Josiah, "that I could make him _know_ that one's enough.

It _seems_ as if _any married man might_.