A Spare Girl — 343
“I never,” says Sam Slick, “see so spare a gal since I was raised. Pharaoh’s lean kine warn’t the smallest part of a circumstance to her. She was so thin, she actilly seemed as if she would have to lean agin the wall to support herself when she scolded, and I had to look twice at her before I could see her at all, for I warn’t sure she warn’t her own shadow.”