Word: stoutly
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...chicken-lady was the intruder who finally forced me on the road again. I first met her on the bus to my relative's house; she was the stout matron, slouched in a rear seat with lumpy plastic sacks packed against it. A younger woman staggered up the steps moaning, "God, I'm tired." So Stout, bridling at her gall, blurted, "Tired! What've you got to be tired about?" And the rest went sort of like this...
...Stout (smoothly): What about people who are just getting off a midnight shift? How should they feel...
...Stout: You haven't been sweating in a tavern all night, and now you don't have to go home and feed the chickens...
...Stout: Chickens eat too, you know. They get hungry...
...Stout: Don't worry, the conductor will do it; he knows...