{"_id":"651ca8cdb80f906ec698d42c","title":"The Sobbin’ Women","author":"Stephen Vincent Benét","code":"the-sobbin-women","publish_year":1937,"publish_source":"Thirteen o’clock, Stories of Several Worlds","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/thirteenoclock0000unse_r5h1/page/138/mode/2up","words":6666,"image":"bride.jpg","image_alt":"A solem looking bride holding flowers. Graphite Filter.","genres":["quirky"],"description":"The Pontipee family live on a farm deep in the wooded valley amongst the bears, and are almost a legend among the straightforward townsfolk. The family mostly keep to themselves, but when the father and mother pass on, the sons start getting ideas.","blurb":"Harry kicked like a cow in fly-time at the bare idea of getting married, and tried to put it on to Halbert, who was next in line. And Halbert passed it on to Harvey, but Harvey said women was snares and delusions, or so he’d heard, and he wouldn’t have a strange woman around him for a brand-new plow.","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}