[jQuery] select text for LI

[sawmac]

I'm trying to select text inside list items. I'm using
jQuery's .text( ) method. Unfortunately, that returns the text of all
children as well. That means for a nested list like this

<ul>
  <li>index.html</li>
  <li>about
    <ul>
      <li>index.html</li>
      <li>more.html</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

$('li').eq(1).text() returns
'about
   index.html
   more.html'

I just want to retrieve "about" not the text from the child list
items. Any ideas on how to do that?

thanks