With a reminiscent smile he replied: "An elegant gentleman from Virginia, a gentleman from Kentucky, a man from Ohio, a bounder from Chicago, a fellow from New York, and a galoot from Maine.

he jest would have peace, ef he had to lick every darned galoot in the valley to git it."Mark

She'd let you know that a girl may be roundan' softan' innocentand a holy terror, too, when a big, blundering galoot of a dep'ty-sheriff talks o' loving somebody to whom he's never been introduced, and never likely to be, neither." Jeff looked up in amazement.