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Updated: June 8, 2025
For the world like the days I spint with the pearlers, watchin' the coral banks a-growin' the same as so many gardens under the sea. There it was, the anchor-ice, clingin' an' clusterin' to ivery rock, after the manner of the white coral. 'But the best of the sight was to come.
Neil Stewart placed the photograph back upon the top of the bookshelf and sighed. "No, sir, dat ain't it. Deed tain't. She been a-growin' up dis long time, but we's been dozin' like, an' ain't had our eyes open wide 'nough. An' now we's all got shook wide awake by somebody else." Mammy paused significantly. Neil Stewart frowned. "Just as well maybe. But don't light into me.
The chimes wuz perfect in their musical records the guide played a tune on 'em. They wuz all lit up by electricity, and it wuz here that the plants wuz a-growin' by no other light but electricity.
One morning, when a soft breeze from the south had melted away all the snow, and the bright sun had thawed all the ice in the ditches, brooks, and ponds, everything looked so bright and fine, that the snowdrops and crocuses popped their heads out of the ground, and kept calling to one another across the gravel walk, "All a-growin' and a-blowin'," as the men who bring round the flowers.
'Why, you're all a-blowin' and a-growin' this morning, Peckover, was his first observation, as he dropped heavily into a wooden arm-chair. 'I shall begin to think that colour of yours ain't natural. Dare you let me rub it with a handkerchief? 'Course I dare, replied Clem, tossing her head. 'Don't be so forward, Mr. Snowdon. 'Forward? Not I. I'm behind time if anything.
It all depends on what you're used to, especially when you're a-growin' up. I'm not much of a reader myself, but Tilly was'; and he heaved a great sigh. 'She took to readin' almost as soon as to walkin', he continued, 'and used to read aloud to us. I s'pose I soon dozed off, but her mother took it all in, and durin' the long winter evenin's they kinder roamed all over the world together.
There's plenty o' smart, stirring women that would mend ye up, and cook for ye, and do well by ye. 'No, says he; 'I've hed my wife, and I've lost her. 'Well, now, says I, 'ye've shown respect, and there's the boy a-growin' up, and if either of you was took sick, why, here ye be. 'Yes, says he, 'here I be, sure enough; and he drawed a long breath, 's if he felt bad; so that's all I said.
Somehow we happened tew git off th' reg'lar trail, me an' Spike did; an' 'long 'bout noon, three days ago, we comed tew a leetle valley, with a leetle stream of water a-runnin' through it, an' a string of trees an' brush a-growin' 'longside th' water.
So I'se gwine ter move on ebbery time dey axes me tu; kase why, I can't help it. Berry'll git enough ter eat most ennywhar, an' dat's 'bout all he 'spects in dis worl'. It's a leetle better dan de ole slave times, an' ef it keeps on a-growin' better 'n better, gineration atter gineration, p'raps some of Berry's kinfolks'll git ter hev a white man's chance some time."
You're workin em. Pray! pray! pray! "'I ave prayed, says he. 'Here's the answer. "Then I sat up. And well I might. I could hear it comin meself low and far, and all the while a-growin like a mutter o thunder. It made me shake to hear it not being brought up religious like.
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