"I saw then that I had not thoroughly domesticated my automobile"

"By the time I had spaded all day I began to have a pretty well defined opinion of gar dens and how large they should be"

"Well,” she said thoughtfully, “I know of an excellent coloured man in Lower Westcote, that we can hire by the day."

"But I told her it would inconvenience the traffic on the street before our house if we moved our house far enough into the street to permit putting a stable of that size in our backyard."

"The two of them would take hold of a board, one at either end, and hold it in their hands, and look at it, and think."

"Isobel and I gathered about him and talked as fast as we could."

"So we three went and looked over the ground again."

"Millington told me his coop was not as he had meant it to be."

"Isobel peeked out of the window, and told me that the policeman and Mr. Rolfs and Mr. Millington were staring at our attic windows."

"Imagine how Rolfs felt when he opened my suit case on the sleeper and found a rain coat, a pink veil, and Chesterfield Whiting."

"He merely said, Well, if this instrument of torture is a putter, I’ll eat it."

"When my putter ceased revolving around me Millington seemed unimpressed."

"Immediately the dog was impelled forward and upward, giving voice."

"Isobel enjoyed these little moments exceedingly."

"Riding in my machine was not what is called joy riding."

"I had just taken my automobile apart."