United States or Liberia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"She is the cookin'est ooman I evah seed in all my life, but howsomedever, I been gwine all dis time an' I ain' nevah said de wo'd. I nevah could git clean erway f'om huh widout somep'n' drawin' me back, an' I didn't know what hit was." The preacher was restless.
Then Miss Woodburn caught up her work, and said, "Ah'll go and tell her, Mrs. Leighton." At the top of the stairs she found Alma, and Alma tried to make it seem as if she had not been standing there. "Mah goodness, chald! there's the handsomest young man asking for you down there you evah saw. Alh told you' mothah Ah would come up fo' you." "What who is it?" "Don't you know? But bo' could you?
"Malcolm was my especial friend long befoah I evah heard of Bernice Howe! Why, at the very first Valentine pahty I evah went to, he gave me the little silvah arrow he won in the archery contest, for me to remembah him by. I've got it on this very minute." She put her hand up to the little silver pin that fastened the lace of her surplice collar.
The moon came up after awhile, and streamed in through the vines of the porch. The hazel eyes slowly closed as Elizabeth began to hum an old-time negro lullaby. "Wondah if she'll run away to-morrow," whispered Mom Beck, as she came out to carry her in the house. "Who'd evah think now, lookin' at her pretty, innocent face, that she could be so naughty? Bless her little soul!"
Maria had warned her not to waken her grandfather, so she admired it in whispers. "Jus' think, Fritz," she exclaimed, "this doll has seen my Gran'mothah Amanthis, an' it's named for her. My mothah wasn't any bigger'n me when she played with it. I think it is the loveliest doll I evah saw in my whole life." Fritz gave a jealous bark. "Sh!" commanded his little mistress.
No Frenchman goes to war except in a white uniform." They were all silent for a moment, and I saw them eyeing Polete distrustfully. But he was foaming at the mouth with fury. "A lie!" he screamed. "A lie, same's de uddah. Don' yo' see what we mus' do? Kill 'em! Kill 'em, an' nobody else'll evah know!" That low growling which I had heard before again ran through the crowd. I must play my last card.
Yuh promise to try?" He turned glazing eyes at the Texan. "The cattle should go to Tip's mother. She's in Dodge City." "Believe me, sah," promised Kid Wolf earnestly, "if we evah get out of this trap alive, Tip and I will do ouah best." The stricken man's face lighted. He grasped his son, Tip, with one hand, the Texan with the other. "I'll pass on easier now."
"If yuh have a pain or an ache, a misery in yuh back, if yuh suffah from stomach-ache or tooth-ache, or an ache in the head; if yuh feet burn and blister; if yuh tongue evah feels thick; if yuh feel a leetle inclined to dizzyness in fact, if yuh have any ache or trouble in the world, this medicine will cure yuh, will bring instant relief."
His wife, Margaret Swilley, and I clare dem two people treated me white. She mammied me er many er day. Ah wuz bred and born right down dar er-round Caledonia. Ah wuz a big gull durin de time uv de centennial snow. Dis snow wuz called dat cause hit wuz de bigges snow dat evah been. Hit wuz ovah yo haid. We had tuh spade our way evah whah we went.
I got some things in dere I be'n havin' nigh onto a hunnert years. Got my ol' blue-back Webster, onliest book I evah had, 'scusin' mah Bible. Think I wanna th'ow dat away? No-o suh! So dey black-list me, 'cause I won't kiss dey feets. I ain't kissin nobody's, wouldn't kiss my own mammy's. I nevah see my mammy.
Word Of The Day