'Did you draw every cent of that money ?' 'Not yet, not yet,' says she.

'You did, you purse-proud cantalope,' says he.

'You know very well you did, an' now I'd like to know where my ox-money is to come from.' But Jone an' me didn't intend to wait for no sich talk as this, an' he tuk the man by the arm, and I tuk the old woman, an' we jus' walked 'em off.

The boarder he told the loafers to get out an' go home, an' none of 'em follered us, for they know'd if they did he'd a batted 'em over the head.

But he comes up alongside o' me, as I was a' walkin' behind with Mrs.Jackson, an' says he: 'How d'ye do, Pomona ?' I must say I felt as if I could slip in between two flagstones, but as I couldn't get away, I said I was pretty well.