Jr. & Horatio Alger 
Jed, the poorhouse boy [EPUB ebook] 

‘Here, you Jed!’
Jed paused in his work with his axe suspended above him, for he was splitting wood. He turned his face toward the side door at which stood a woman, thin and sharp-visaged, and asked: ‘Well, what’s wanted?’
‘None of your impudence, you young rascal! Come here, I say!’