And if she can't get enough here, why there's the ride home.

Lord, I'd get a girl nearer home! You've got to drive six miles out of your way to Summer Falls and back.

As for me, the quicker I get a girl off my hands the better.

I'm going to take Nancy Blake because she lives next door to the tavern.

Go along with ye, Ab; Burr and I will settle it some way." But it looked for some time after Abner Little left as if there would be no ball that night.