with their hands, and then stupidly surrender them
selves to the executioners. There is no splendid
audacity about their transgressions. They gouge
a mate with a dull knife, or beat his head in with
an iron pot, and then sit down and wait for the
police. Wife-beating is the masculine prerogative
of matrimony. They wear remarkable boots of

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brass and iron, and when they have polished off
the mother of their children with a black eye or
so, they knock her down and proceed to trample
her very much as a Western stallion tramples a
rattlesnake.

A woman of the lower Ghetto classes is as much
the slave of her husband as is the Indian squaw.
And I, for one, were I a woman and had but the

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