“There — ye’re confessing it again, ye’re confessing it again!”

“Confound it, I’ve never denied it, I tell you!

What I say is this. With us half a dollar buys more than a dollar buys with you — and therefore it stands to reason and the commonest kind of common-sense, that our wages are higher than yours.”

He looked dazed, and said, despairingly:

“Verily, I cannot make it out. Ye’ve just said ours are the higher, and with the same breath ye take it back.”

“Oh, great Scott, isn’t it possible to get such a simple thing through your head? Now look here — let me illustrate. We pay four cents for a woman’s