They say it's easier to pay for a castle like that out here than it is to keep a cook so far away from Washington Street.

I let go of ten acres right here in the eighties; we used to think the town would stop at the creek," Mrs.
Owen explained, and then announced the dictum: "Keep land; mortgage if you got to, but never sell; that's my motto." It was nearly six when they reached home, and dinner was appointed for seven.

Mrs.Owen drove directly into the barn and gave minute instructions as to the rubbing-down and feeding of the horses.

In addressing the negroes she imitated their own manner of speech.

Sylvia had noticed that Mrs.Owen did not always pronounce words in the same way, but such variations are marked among our Southwestern people, particularly where, as in Mrs.Owen's case, they have lived on both sides of the Ohio River.