The carriages and horses had arrived by freight the morning before; the servants and the family on the afternoon train.
"I see 'em myself," affirmed Alonzo.

"I was as nigh to 'em as I be to you.

Mrs.Colton is sort of fleshy, but as handsome a woman as you'd want to see.

I spoke to her, too.

'It's a nice day,' I says, 'ain't it ?'" "What did she say ?" asked Newcomb.
"She didn't say nothin'.