Not a taste of that fish, when he's teased me for years?
He's as big as a whale.

If Jonah had had the good fortune of falling in the Wabash, and being swallowed by the Black Bass, he could have ridden from Peru to Terre Haute, and suffered no inconvanience makin' a landin'.

Siven pounds he'll weigh by the steelyard I'll wager you." "Five, Jimmy, five," corrected Dannie.
"Siven!" shouted Jimmy.

"Ain't I hooked him repeated?
Ain't I seen him broadside?
I wonder if thim domn lines of mine have gone and rotted." He left his supper, carrying his chair, and standing on it he began rummaging the top shelf of the cupboard for his box of tackle.

He knocked a bottle from the shelf, but caught it in mid-air with a dexterous sweep.
"Spirits are movin'," cried Jimmy, as he restored the camphor to its place.