"I said her hat had blown away, and her brown curls tossed in the wind.

What's wrong with that?
Hats do blow away in a sou'wester; I've seen them." "Perhaps he thinks she should have been more careful in pinning it on," suggested the feminine member of the advisory board.
Captain Elisha shook his head.

"No," he observed calmly, "but why was she wearin' that kind of hair?
She's pretty young to use a switch, ain't she ?" "Switch ?" repeated "Mary's" creator, with some indignation.

"What are you talking about?
When I first described her, I said that her hair was luxuriant and one of her chief beauties." "That's a fact! So you did.

What made her dye it ?" "Dye it?
What do you think she is--a chorus girl ?" "If I remember right she's a postmaster's daughter.