"Excuse me, please," she said, "but I've been dying to do this for so long.

That--that Miss Parker is the oddest person!" The captain grinned.

"Thinkin' about that 'diagram' yarn ?" he asked.
"'Tis funny when you hear it the first four or five times.

Hannah Parker can get more wrong words in the right places than anybody I ever run across.

She must have swallowed a dictionary some time or 'nother, but it ain't digested well, I'm afraid." Thankful laughed, too.