Do you know, Thrums is the only place I was ever in where it struck me that the men are cleverer than the women." She told us why.
"Well, to-night affords a case in point.

Mr.McQumpha was quite brilliant, was he not, in comparison with his daughter?
Really she seemed so put out at being at the manse that she could not raise her eyes.

I question if she would know me again, and I am sure she sat in the room as one blindfolded.

I left her in the bedroom a minute, and I assure you, when I returned she was still standing on the same spot in the centre of the floor." I pointed out that Leeby had been awestruck.
"I suppose so," she said; "but it is a pity she cannot make use of her eyes, if not of her tongue.

Ah, the Thrums women are good, I believe, but their wits are sadly in need of sharpening.