"Yes, gal, you has got to mind them ar' wimmen," said Mr. Peterkin to me, as he pointed toward his daughters.
"Father, I do wish you would quit that vulgarism; say girl, not gal, and ladies, not women."
"Oh, I was never edicated, like you."
"Educated is the word."
"Oh, confound your dictionaries! Ever since that school-marm come out from Yankee-land, these neighborhood gals talk so big, nobody can understand 'em."
CHAPTER III.
THE YANKEE SCHOOL-MISTRESS—HER PHILOSOPHY—THE AMERICAN ABOLITIONISTS.