all-alive

Updated: May 19, 2025

"No wonder, with that great boy, and all she does. Aunt Low-ize tried to hold him, jest while Vesty was singin', an' she had to take him out and walk twict around Blueberry Hill t' keep him still; he's one o' this 'ere all-alive, jumpin' kind. I sh'd think he'd kill her." I overtook Vesty in the lane; she was gathering flowers in Sunday pastime for the baby.

Sarah Pratt McLean Greene - Vesty of the Basins