7-2 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



&quot; It must have been a nuisance such a rabble ; where 

 were the police 1&quot; 



&quot; In America, all the men in sight would have been police 

 men, if necessary, to have parted them.&quot; 



&quot;Don t you like fair fighting, then, you Americans ?&quot; 

 asked the coachman. 



&quot; Why we don t like fighting at all among women. It 

 is disgraceful ! Surely the idea of women fighting so brutal 

 ly is disgusting to you V 



&quot; Disgusting 1 I don t know that. There s Joan of Arc, 

 and Amazon, and other handsome heroines; they are not 

 disgusting, are they 1 I tell you, sir, I do like a fair, stand- 

 up fight, and, damme, sir, I don t know, by your leave, why 

 women have not the right to settle their quarrels that way as 

 well as men.&quot; 



&quot; The right yes ; and if they must fight, let it be a fair 

 fight ; but I would rather men would fight for them. Fight 

 ing ! a man could drive a coach as well, I suppose, or fell a 

 tree as well after fighting as before ; but a woman could not 

 sooth a child, nor would she feel disposed to take tender care 

 of one, I think, if her fighting propensities had been much 

 cultivated whether in fair fighting or foul.&quot; 



&quot; Oh, you are quite right, sir, quite right,&quot; said the 

 gentleman on my left; &quot;women should not be allowed to 

 fight. But what application has it to my friend s being 

 turned out of his seat because a woman did not wish to 

 get wet ?&quot; 



&quot; Why, I was thinking that if we sometimes show a less 

 commanding instinct of justice in our customs towards wo 

 men, as you have thought from that incident, we may also 

 exhibit a more delicate sense of propriety and fitness, which, 

 if it does not rest on an instinct of justice, certainly does on 

 something nearly akin to it. You find no mob in America 



