Scarcely any of the young men have your legs.

How thankful we ought to be for them--and teeth! But everything seems to be different now, and nobody has any dignity of mind.

We sowed broad beans, like a pigeon's foot-tread, out and in, all the way to church." "The folk can never do such things now; we must not expect it of such times, my dear.

Five-and-forty years ago was ninety times better than these days, Debby, except that you and I was steadfast, and mean to be so to the end, God willing.

Lord! what are the lasses that He makes now ?" "Johnny, they try to look their best; and we must not be hard upon them.
Our Mary looks well enow, when she hath a color, though my eyes might 'a been a brighter blue if I never hadn't took to spectacles.