'Tisn't my favorite brand of fiction, but I'm reading it jest to see how long she can spin it out.

It's at the sixty-second chapter now, and the wedding ain't any nearer than when it begun, far's I can see.

When little Joe comes I have to read him pirate yarns.

Ain't it strange how innocent little creatures like children like the blood-thirstiest stories ?" "Like my lad Davy at home," said Anne.

"He wants tales that reek with gore." Captain Jim's tea proved to be nectar.