It's a healthful form of exercise--" "It's a darn fad, and you'll go back to school looking like a squaw--and serve you right.

It's getting along towards the time when snakes go blind.

You want to be careful, Mary V--" "Oh, piffle! I've lived here all my life, just about, and I never _saw_ a person bitten with a snake.

And neither did you, mom, and you know it.
But, of course, if you insist on making me sit in the house day in and day out--" Mary V cut two more slices of bread and began spreading them liberally with butter.

She looked very grieved, and very determined.
"Oh, nobody ever made you sit in the house yet.