been-a-tremble

Updated: June 27, 2025

Den I open my bundle, and take ole white shut and tie him on ole pole and wave him, and ebry time de wind blow, I been-a-tremble, and drap down in de bushes," because, being between two fires, he doubted whether friend or foe would see his signal first.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment