"Not that anybody ever comes on it, but I cal'late I'm s'posed to be there.

Be more talk than a little if I wan't.

Git dap, Dan'l! you're slower'n the moral law." "So you're goin' to do your own cookin' for a spell, Cy ?" observed Asaph, a half hour later, "Well, I guess that's a good idea, till you can find the right housekeeper.

I ain't been able to think of one that would suit you yet." "Nor I, either.

Neither's Bailey, I judge, though for a while he was as full of suggestions as a pine grove is of woodticks.