I try to be.

You're going to have servants to wait on your hand and foot.

Isabelle, I just can't stand to watch you suffer.

You don't appear to be too unhappy.

Couldn't be you'd have to quit school.

Might be close to $40 by now.

Said, California's the place you ought to be.

Well, it ain't nothing to be ashamed of, son.

Well, it ain't nothing to be ashamed of, son.

You're going to be sending me a lot of cabbage.

Him being almost like a son to you and all.

I still can't figure out where you found vittles enough to put on all that weight since last summer.

I want to finish the sixth grade so as I can be a brain surgeon.

Of course, after Jethro and Essie Bell's proper hitch, then we gonna be wanting to live near our kinfolk.

Roof needed patchin', well caved in had to be dug out, mule needin' chewin', lots of little things like that.