The Female of the Species
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Summary
When the early Jesuits preached to the Hurons and Choctaws, they prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaw. It was the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster,
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who will often turn aside, but the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and
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nail, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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When the nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man, he will sometimes wriggle sideways
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and avoid it if he can, but his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the
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trail, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws, they prayed to be delivered from
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the vengeance of the squaws, t'was the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts
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pale, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say, for the woman that God gave
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him isn't his to give away, but when hunter meets with husband each confirms the other's
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Man a bear in most relations, worm and savage otherwise.
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Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact to its ultimate conclusion, an unmitigated
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Fear or foolishness impels him ere he lay the wicked low, to concede some form of trial even
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Mirth obscene diverts his anger, doubt and pity off perplex, him in dealing with an issue, to
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But the woman that God gave him every fiber of her frame proves her launched for one sole
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And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, the female of the species must be deadlier
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She who faces death by torture for each life beneath her breast may not deal in doubt or pity,
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These be purely male diversions, not in these her honor dwells.
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She, the other law we live by, is that law and nothing else.
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She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great, as the mother of the
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And when babe and man are lacking and she strides in claim to claim, her right as femme and baron,
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She is wedded two convictions, in default of grosser ties.
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Her contentions are her children, heaven help him who denies.
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He will meet no suave discussions, but the instant white-hot wild, wakened female of the
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Unprovoked and awful charges, even so the she-bear fights.
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Speech that drips corrodes and poisons, even so the cobra bites.
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Scientific vivisections of one nerve till it is raw, and the victim writhes in anguish
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So it comes that man the coward, when he gathers to confer with his fellow braves in council,
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dare not leave a place for her, where at war with life and conscience he uplifts his erring
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hand to some god of abstract justice, which no woman understands.
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And man knows it, knows moreover, that the woman that God gave him, must command but may
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not govern, shall enthrall but not enslave him.
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And she knows, because she warns him, and her instincts never fail, that the female of