"You have been going there for three weeks, and yet you don't know your way ?" "I been a in-patient.

I was took there"-- she was about to say "on a stretcher," but checked herself in time--"I was took there in the evenin' after dark.

Father couldn' take me by day, in his work-time.
An' this is my first turn as day-patient, an' that's why my brother 'ere is let off school to see me along," she wound up with a desperate rush of invention.
"You don't live in my district?
What's your father's name ?" "No, ma'am.

He's called Porter--Sam Porter, an' he works on the coal-barges.

But I wouldn' advise you, I reely wouldn', because father's got opinions, an' can't abide visitors.