The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 8 Page 7

that hit war worth more’n the money. All the schoolin’ I had war just that thar papah, an’ that old spellin’-book you see on the shelf; I c’n remembah how maw come by that, too.”

“Tell me how she came by the spelling-book, will you?”

“Hit war about that time. Paw, he nevah come home again. I cyan’t remembah much ‘bouts my paw. Maw used to say a heap o’ times if she only had a spellin’-book like she used to larn out’n, ‘at she could larn we-uns right smart. Well, one day one o’ the neighbors told her ‘at he’d seed one at Gerret’s, ovah t’othah side Lone Pine Creek, nigh about eight mile, I reckon; an’ she ‘lowed she’d get hit. So she sont we-uns ovah to Teasley’s