bayhoo

Updated: May 5, 2025

This dominant object, the shepherdess of the flock, was Miss Bayou or Bayhoo I recover but the alien sound of her name, which memory caresses only because she may have been of like race with her temple of learning, which faced my grandmother's house in North Pearl Street and really justified its exotic claim by its yellow archaic gable-end: I think of the same as of brick baked in the land of dykes and making a series of small steps from the base of the gable to the point.

Henry James - A Small Boy and Others