We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises […]

We were compelled to go by carriage, as the railroads had been destroyed, the fat-pine cross-ties burned to heat the rails and the red-hot rails wrapped around the trees growing near the track. We used to call these iron rails Sherman's neckties, and the solemn-looking chimneys standing guard over the former sites of once happy homes were called by the natives Sherman's monuments.]

It seems humanly reasonable that the three of us can woman-handle a mere man of your elderly and insulting avoirdupois.

Be careful! cried the green girl. The tears will fall on your green silk gown and spot it. So Dorothy dried her eyes and said, I suppose we must try it; but I am sure I do not want to kill anybody, even to see Aunt Em again.