By-and-by a little Indian meal and water would be boiled for supper.

There were some vegetables in the cellar, otherwise no food in the house.

Ann lied.
Squire Eben Merritt then displayed what would have been tact in a keenly calculating and analytic nature.

"Oh, throw them out for the dogs, if you don't want them, Mrs.Edwards," he returned, gayly.
"I've got more than my wife can use here.

We are getting rather tired of partridges, we have had so many.