"I know better than to let you have it," she said, laughing.

"You'd eat all the way there, and there wouldn't be enough left to go round.

Me and Rose will carry it; it ain't very heavy." William and Barney each bore two great jugs of molasses-and-water spiced with ginger.
Silas pulled himself up stiffly when he saw them coming; he had been sitting upon the peaked rock whereon Ezra Ray had kept vigil with the cow-bell.

Full of anxiety had he been all day lest they should pick from any except the four trees which he had set apart for them, and his anxiety was greater since he knew that the best cherries were not on those four trees.

Silas sidled painfully towards his wife and daughter; he peered over into the tub, but they swung it remorselessly past him, even knocking his shin with its iron-bound side.
"What you got there ?" he demanded, huskily.
"Don't you say one word," returned his wife, with a fierce shake of her head at him.
"What's in them jugs ?" "It's nothing but sweetened water.