The boy, he said somethin' or other pretty bad, an' away he goes after him; but the horse was a-trottin' real fast, an' had a good start." "How on earth could you ever think of doing such things ?" said Euphemia.

"That horse might have upset the wagon and broken all the lightning-rods, besides running over I don't know how many people." "But you see, ma'am, that wasn't my lookout," said Pomona.

"I was a-defendin' the house, and the enemy must expect to have things happen to him.

So then I hears an awful row on the roof, and there was the man just coming down the ladder.

He'd heard the horse go off, and when he got about half-way down an' caught a sight of the bull-dog, he was madder than ever you seed a lightnin'-rodder in all your born days.
'Take that dog off of there!' he yelled at me.