"'Tain't nothin' but fool yarns, the whole of it.

Take an old house, a hundred year old same as that is, and shut her up and 'tain't long afore folks do get to pretendin' they hear things.

I never heard nothin'.

Have some more pie, Miss Howes?
Huh! There AIN'T no more, is there!" After dinner Emily retired to her room for a nap.

She did so under protest, declaring that she was not tired, but Thankful insisted.
"If you ain't tired now you will be when the excitement's over," she said.