"You're just like a man that I knew at the East." "Why, do you think an old soldier like me, hobbling on a wooden leg, is afraid of them thieves?
Didn't I face the Britishers?
Didn't I come home late last Wednesday night?
I rather guess I must a took a little too much at Welch's grocery, and laid down in the middle of the street to rest.

The boys thought 'twas funny to crate[20] me.

I woke up kind o' cold, 'bout one in the mornin.' 'Bout two o'clock I come up Means's hill, and didn't I see Pete Jones, and them others that robbed the Dutchman, and somebody, I dunno who, a-crossin' the blue-grass paster _towards_ Jones's ?" (Ralph shivered.) "Don't shake your finger at me, old woman.

Tongue is all I've got to fight with now; but I'll fight them thieves tell the sea goes dry, I will.

Shocky, gim me a splint." "But you wasn't selfish when you tuck me.