item: #1 of 7 id: 9443 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 1 date: None words: 10485 flesch: 86 summary: And then again I thought, and it don't seem as if I can be mistaken, I most know that I heerd Josiah Allen mutter in a low voice, Dumb good works! sez Josiah, some wimmen don't care about anythin' but crazy work and back combs. keywords: allen; chapter; deacon; good; hain't; house; josiah; right; set; sez; time; wall; wimmen; wuz cache: 9443.txt plain text: 9443.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 9444 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 2 date: None words: 5498 flesch: 88 summary: I hadn't any bread in the house, but I had it a-risin', and I got two loaves out by dinner time. I couldn't turn him out jest at dinner time. keywords: 'em; good; jest; sez; time; wall; wuz cache: 9444.txt plain text: 9444.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 9445 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3 date: None words: 12194 flesch: 86 summary: But, howsomever, Cephas wuz took sick, Sally Ann wuzn't able to do anything for their support, S. Annie wuz took down with the typhus, and so it happened the very day the monument wuz brought to the Loontown cemetery, Cephas Bodley's folks wuz carried to the county house, S. Annie, the children and all. Wall, sez Josiah, you dassent say she wouldn't. keywords: cephas; come; day; goin'; hain't; house; jest; josiah; sez; submit; thought; time; wall; way; wuz cache: 9445.txt plain text: 9445.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 9446 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 4 date: None words: 11237 flesch: 87 summary: And there the minister wuz, good old creeter, jest a-sufferin' for the necessities of life, and most half a year's salery due. The other girls married off, and left her to hum, and she had chances, so it wuz said, good ones, but she wouldn't leave her father and mother, who wuz gettin' old, and kinder bed-rid, and needed her. keywords: charnick; good; house; jenette; jest; joe; josiah; meetin; right; sez; time; trueman; wuz cache: 9446.txt plain text: 9446.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 9447 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 date: None words: 9567 flesch: 82 summary: She sez to Josiah: Why is it, Deacon Allen, that men deacons can carry on all sorts of business and still be deacons, while wimmen deacons are obleeged to give up all other business and devote themselves wholly to their work? It is on account of their minds, sez Josiah. It wuzn't proved, sez Josiah, a-turnin' the almanac over and lookin' at the advertisement on the back side on't. keywords: day; deacon; good; house; jest; josiah; meetin; right; sez; time; way; wimmen; work; wuz cache: 9447.txt plain text: 9447.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 9448 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 6 date: None words: 7129 flesch: 84 summary: Wuz you ever nervous? sez I. Never, sez he. Yes, sez I candidly, and in the sweet past they wuz necessary, sez I. In the sweet past, there wuzn't a clock nor a watch, the houses wuz fur apart, and they needed bells. keywords: bells; day; deacon; good; hain't; night; sez; sleep; time; wall; wuz cache: 9448.txt plain text: 9448.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 9449 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 date: None words: 19472 flesch: 70 summary: My judgment and my conscience before the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Restrictive Rules is that these women elected by these Electoral Conferences are in this General Conference. These women delegates must be put out of this General Conference if they are not granted the rights and privileges of members here. keywords: body; church; conference; constitution; delegates; delegation; general; house; law; lay; laymen; man; methodist; question; right; sister; vote; women; wuz cache: 9449.txt plain text: 9449.txt