Last time I was down, there were only a few houses here; now it's pretty thick settled back of the meeting-house." "I'll take you," said Mother Hubbard, putting her handkerchief to her face.

"How would my dog feel if he knew I had come to this!" "Come to what, ma'am ?" "Why, to New York, to take boarders." "Are you in _indigenous_ circumstances, madam?
And have you seen the first society?
If so, I may possibly conclude to come too," said Dotty, sweeping forward, and losing a hair-pin out of her chignon.
"O, what a fascinating creature!" said the Man in the Moon, making an eye-glass of his thumb and forefinger, and gazing at the lady boarder.
"_Are_ you a widow, ma'am ?" "Well, they don't say nuffin' 'bout fixin' _me_ up! Guess I shan't go to the party!" exclaimed Fly, opening and closing her eyes in token of outraged dignity.
Prudy took her into auntie's room, and proceeded at once to robe her in her own night-dress, with a lace night-cap, and a cologne-mat for a bib.
"Hollis didn't say for me to be such a _long_ baby," sniffled Fly, trying in vain to clear her feet from the trailing skirt.
"This is your slip, dear.

You're only a baby--musn't try to walk." "Then my papa must carry me down stairs," said Fly, entering into the spirit of the play.

"You tell him so--I can't tell him, for I can't talk.

_Argoo-goo._ My teeth haven't camed." "If you please, Master Clifford," said Nathaniel, appearing at the head of the stairs.