It ain't as if I was a girl like Susan there.
Boxes of candy an' Susan would match up like pale blue an' white.

I guess the safe thing is to make choice of one that ain't a stranger.
I've done business with Skinner years an' years, sellin' him calves an' buyin' meat off of him; an' as for the Colonel, I guess I know all his bad points as well as his good ones.

The Colonel has been a friend of pa's a long time." So it happened that when Eliph' Hewlitt called at Miss Sally's that afternoon he did not find her at home.

Mrs.Smith received him and tried to make up by her kindness for the disappointment Eliph' evidently felt.

She thanked him in Miss Sally's name for the beautiful box of candy--although Miss Sally had left no such word--and drew him on to talk of Jarby & Goss, the publishers of the Encyclopedia, and of his own adventures.