Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hod the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way.

“Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle don’t hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hod the needle still and poke the thread at it; that’s the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t’other way. And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tiptoe and fetch your hand over your head as awkward as you can, and miss your rat about six or seven foot.”

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 11. The differences between boys and girls that allow the crafty Mrs. Loftus to see through Huck’s girl disguise and outsmart trickster Huck.

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