a-spadin

Updated: May 20, 2025

Not him, anyhow!" declared the colored man in great disgust. "When I git so old dat I cain't spade a garden, den me an' Boomerang, we-all gwine to die, dat's all I got to say. I was a-spadin' my part ob de garden, Massa Tom, same laik Mr. Damon done tole me to, an' dish yeah big mess ob bones steps on my side ob de middle an " "Him too slow.

Victor [pseud.] Appleton - Tom Swift and His Air Scout, or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky