She said so much smoke in the house was drivin' her into consumption, and she worked up a cough that was a reg'lar graveyard quickstep.

I heard her practicin' it once, and, I swan, there was harps and halos all through it! "That cough made Kenelm set up and take notice; and no wonder.

He listened to a hundred or so of Hannah's earthquakes, and then he got up and pranced out of the house.

When he came back the doctor was with him.
"Now, this wa'n't exactly what his sister was lookin' for.

She didn't want to see the doctor.