Did you see Mullet's bridge?
Elnathan says he cal'lates he's got willow kindlin' enough to last him all summer.

Ready split too--the lightnin' attended to that.

Lute Rogers don't talk about nothin' else.

I cal'late he wishes lightnin' would strike your woodpile; then he'd be saved consider'ble labor, hey ?" He laughed and I laughed with him.
"I understood Princess Colton was out in the wust of it," went on Captain Jed.

"Did you hear how her horse ran away ?" "Yes," I answered, shortly; "I heard about it." "Never stopped till it got half way to West Bayport.