Rebel women

treet

dy who had just stepped upon the su

y large baby, stared in some astonishment. Another lady, who had been distributing h

endid!" she said w

n't want them?" she sighed. Her friend being engaged at the moment in pressing a handbill upon the little girl, who obligingly gripped the baby with one han

d amiably. "We have come here t

e of London, shifting the baby on to the other arm; and the d

for some more peop

. "They always come along fast enough as soon as t

regretfully of a happy past in which the chief aim of a well-ordere

t rid of these, there's a dear! It doesn't matter what you say," she added consolingly, a

f these unexpectedly. "Nous sommes des suffragi

, beaming on them. "Do stop and listen. Nous allons avoir u

French suffragists

had been learning by heart for days, could be heard announcing that she would now call upon the o

e 'er a chaunce!" remarked a wit, as th

and moved off. "I shall turn into

k retort from the rickety platform, and the i

show of listening, it being out of the question, of course, to allow that any woman, least of all a Suffragette, could talk over their head

git that from

tory," said the speaker indulgen

ously on the sugar-box, and addressed the

er his shoulder. "History, she says! Believin' what

h the question as a whole. "Pack o' women!" he snorted. "Why don't they stay at '

with undisturbed composure. "Perhaps, when he reaches the age that will entitle

h, turning round amid the laughter of the crowd to face the woman on

ng about the present political situation. If you will kindly keep you

er. "Stow it, Jim, till

ragette," grumbled the youth, angrily cons

e speaker's voice was drowned for a minut

ked one woman of another,

a large bundle with he

id; "but I loves

another interrupter, who wanted to know how a woman could find t

ife and six children to support?" she demanded;

e remarked to her companion. "I don't 'old with

ted by a temporary lull and began to talk of economics. She held her audience now without difficulty, telling them things about the labour market that they knew to

l live Suffragette! How chic!" s

the woman who made it. In a minute or two the amused smil

nd listen to this-you positively must

igned for the next few moments while supporters yelled for silence and opponents sang songs. A

and once more she carried the joking, irresponsible crowd along with her. "Y

ing to cook the Sunday dinner f

y rejoinder. "Or, better still, she can cook it overnigh

Hyde Park?" demanded a sporting-looki

y think how the children will love a picnic, and a picnic like ours, too, with eighty women-speak

ut Holloway?" jeered th

m you to-morrow, wouldn't you have the pluck to go to pris

noticed that listening women, who had hitherto shown no open approval of what was said

ed man who answered to the name of Jack. He had not intended this for an aud

leasant change?" she shot back at him, hot with scorn; and again listening women flushed with nervous pleasure. "Some of our comrades are coming out of prison next Saturday," the speaker went on ra

birds too? Not much!" roared

ndred open-air meetings, knowing her crowd better than it knew itself, saw that it had had enough, and called for questions. These were swiftly disposed of, being princip

wed up in the jostling, chattering crowd, a

id, clutching anxiously at his arm. "They

mselves than I am," observed Jack tranquilly. "Besides, they're not b

s, who, still distributing handbills to right and left of them as they came,

porter, flinging mere accuracy to the winds. "And I'm coming to Ho

" said Ja