peart

She's right smart younger than I am, and I've got eight children and five grandchildren, peart and lively as rabbits.

Pap he's down in th' back now, an' ain't right peart, but he'll be 'round in a little, I reckon.

He aint got no bag fer ter tote, en he pick up he foots mighty peart.

He wuz very peart and sassy, and it was take-it-or-leave-it-and-be-plaguey- quick-about-it all the time.

The little gal—Eda, we call her—began to pick right up on that milk, and now she's as peart as any child you ever saw.