"I reckon the thing sort o' got started last summer."
"Seem to me he favors her a little thess aroun' the mouth."
"Quick ez he see the clock, he come thoo."
"She does make 'im so contented an' happy."
"Name this child."
"An' then Sonny, seein' it all over, he come down."
"He was watchin' a bird-nest on the way to that school."
"He had been playin' out o' doors bare-feeted."
"Any question he missed was to be passed on to them thet had been grad'jatin' so fast."
"'This orange is the Earth, an' this here apple is the Sun.'"
"What could be sweeter 'n little Mary Elizabeth?"
"When I set here by myself on this po'ch so much these days an' think."
"Seem like a person don't no mo' 'n realize he's a descendant befo' he's a' ancestor."
