"Mom Beck will be comin' for me soon." "Yes, it is nearly noon," he answered.

"It didn't do much good to run away from your Aunt Tyler; she'll see you after all." "Well, she can't 'queeze me an' kiss me, 'cause I've been naughty, an' I'll be put to bed like I was the othah day, just as soon as I get home.
I 'most wish I was there now," she sighed.

"It's so fa' an' the sun's so hot.

I lost my sunbonnet when I was comin' heah, too." Something in the tired, dirty face prompted the old Colonel to say, "Well, my horse hasn't been put away yet.

I'll take you home on Maggie Boy." The next moment he repented making such an offer, thinking what the neighbours might say if they should meet him on the road with Elizabeth's child in his arm.
But it was too late.