text:  That there was a fierce war between them and the men--that there was a truce to bury the dead on either side--that the prudent male general contrived that the truce should be prolonged; and during the truce both armies had friendly intercourse--on some pretence or other the truce was still lengthened till there was not one woman in a condition or with an inclination to take up her wrongs--not one woman was any longer a fighting man--they saw their errors--they did not as the fable says we all do cast the burden of their own faults behind them but bravely carried them before them--made peace and were righted