To tell the truth, Lucy, it isn't the first time I have thought of doing it.

I don't care about knuckling under to any man, as these folk do to their darned prophet.

I'm a free-born American, and it's all new to me.

Guess I'm too old to learn.

If he comes browsing about this farm, he might chance to run up against a charge of buckshot travelling in the opposite direction." "But they won't let us leave," his daughter objected.
"Wait till Jefferson comes, and we'll soon manage that.