I think it is Mr.Ned who teaches her, for when he comes home in the summer he often says, with a sly twinkle in his eye, "Come out into the garden, Bella," and he lies in a hammock under the trees, and Bella perches on a branch near him, and he talks to her by the hour.

Anyway, it is in the autumn after he leaves Riverdale that Bella always shocks Mrs.Morris with her slang talk.
I am glad that I am to end my days in Riverdale.

Fairport was a very nice place, but it was not open and free like this farm.

I take a walk every morning that the sun shines.

I go out among the horses and cows, and stop to watch the hens pecking at their food.