Note 34 — CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY PEOPLE
Reading edition
The knack of off-hand, unprincipled, idle fabrication is not assisted, but the contrary, by general knowledge or regular education. Women, for this reason, have the better of their husbands in trumping up sudden excuses and contrivances that have no foundation in fact or reason; and their servant maids, who are more uneducated still, beat them hollow at the same paltry game of cross-purposes.