There are moments when the brightest minds prefer the soothings of sympathy to all the brilliance of wit, as he that is in need of repose, selects a bed of feathers, rather than of flints.
The reteller of these stories needs in addition to plead guilty of having abridged the tales with a free hand.
Most of the inhabitants were white women, noted Tom Osborn, with lots of dirty, half-naked children hanging onto their skirts. When Osborn asked a drabbletail group gathered in front of a stick-chimney shanty to account for their husbands, two or three acknowledged the men were away soldiering; another claimed to be an old maid.
But Mr. Slater said a component of the motor-voter law designed to reach low-income people who do not drive remained largely unenacted.
