"I reckon it ain't the same kind of a garden that you've been used to, mum.

I've heerd that you cooked for Queen Victoria." "Oh no, no," said La Fleur, dropping her head on one side so that her smile made a slight angle with the horizon; "I never cooked for the queen, no indeed; but I have lived with high families, lords, ladies, and ambassadors, and I don't remember that any of them had better potatoes than I saw to-day.

Is this a large farm, Michael ?" "It's considerable over a hundred acres, though I don't 'xactly know how much.

Not what you'd call big, and not what you'd call little." "But you grow beautiful crops on it, I don't doubt," remarked La Fleur.
"Can't say about that," said Mike, shaking his head a little.

"I 'spects we'll git good 'nough craps for what we do for 'em.