1 But Tom said all women was just so.
2 And don't go about women in that old calico.
3 The young women had quilts around them, and their hair down their backs.
4 Lots of the women and girls was crying and taking on, scared most to death.
5 Some of the old women was knitting, and some of the young folks was courting on the sly.
6 Buck and his ma and all of them smoked cob pipes, except the nigger woman, which was gone, and the two young women.
7 Many makes it out of iron-rust and tears; but that's the common sort and women; the best authorities uses their own blood.
8 The women had on sun-bonnets; and some had linsey-woolsey frocks, some gingham ones, and a few of the young ones had on calico.
9 Mighty soon we'll have the cave so cluttered up with women, and fellows waiting to be ransomed, that there won't be no place for the robbers.
10 There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a sun-bonnet, and some women's underclothes hanging against the wall, and some men's clothing, too.
11 We used to hop out of the woods and go charging down on hog-drivers and women in carts taking garden stuff to market, but we never hived any of them.
12 That night they had a big supper, and all them men and women was there, and I stood behind the king and the duke's chairs and waited on them, and the niggers waited on the rest.
13 Children was heeling it ahead of the mob, screaming and trying to get out of the way; and every window along the road was full of women's heads, and there was nigger boys in every tree, and bucks and wenches looking over every fence; and as soon as the mob would get nearly to them they would break and skaddle back out of reach.