I'm the doctor here and I ride all over this part o' the country.

I reckon I know it pretty well." A woman in a neat calico dress came out of the door--a strong built and rather well favored woman with blonde hair and dark eyes.
"Mrs.Rutledge, these are travelers from the East," said the Doctor.
"Give 'em some dinner, and if they can't pay for it, I can.

They've come all the way from Vermont." "Good land! Come right in an' rest yerselves.

Abe, you show the gentleman where to put his horses an' lend him a hand." Abe extended his long arm toward Samson and said "Howdy" as they shook hands.
"When his big hand got hold of mine, I kind of felt his timber," Samson writes.

"I says to myself, 'There's a man it would be hard to tip over in a rassle.'" "What's yer name?
How long ye been travelin'?
My conscience! Ain't ye wore out ?" the hospitable Mrs.Rutledge was asking as she went into the house with Sarah and the children.