" Yes, yes; the 'Little Yank, '" came from all sides. "A Daughter of the Union" by Lucy Foster Madison

Why, says I, if anybody is a drowndin', you don't ask their consent to be drawed out of the water, you jest jump in, and yank 'em out. "Sweet Cicely Or Josiah Allen as a Politician" by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)