No, Mis’ Hildreth, ’twa’n’t that she’d aged sence I’d seen her; besides, ’twa’n’t more’n a matter of seven or eight years sence she was visitin’ her ma’s folks in Thornton.

I exhausted my strength walking up the hill.

primpings and preenings

Donatus, or whoëver is the Author of that Diſcourſe about Comedy, ſays;