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“They tell me you are a man with true grit.”
There is no generosity in women. They want everything coming in and nothing going out. They show no trust. Lord God, how they hate to pay you! They will get the work of two men out of you and I guess they would beat you with whips if they was able to. No sir, not me. Never. A man will not work for a woman, not unless he has clabber for brains.”
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?