"My old man's dust and ashes long ago, but I always done what I could to please him.

Men's mighty onreasonable, the best of 'em, but when a woman is married she ought to do all she can for the sake of peace.

I dont see what a man has got to do interferin with the cookin, no how; a woman oughter 'tend to these matters.

'Pears to me, Mr.Moore, (captain, as you calls him,) is mighty fidjetty about bottles, all at once.

But if he cant bear the sight of a brandy bottle in the house, bring 'em down here to me; I'll keep 'em out of his sight, I'll be bound.