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Updated: June 14, 2025
Hit's been punishment enough fer ye ter endure him this long ... ter hev been wedded with a brute ... but ther child's got hits life ter live ... an' hit kain't be borned in no jail house!" "I reckon " the response came weakly from the heaped-up covers "I reckon hit's got ter be thetaway, Ken." "By God, no!
"Borned in the kentry and ain't never been out o' hit" is all that most of them can say for themselves. Who are these southern mountaineers? Whence came they? What is the secret of their belatedness and isolation? Before the Civil War they were seldom heard of in the outside world. Vaguely it was understood that the Appalachian highlands were occupied by a peculiar people called "mountain whites."
Liza wuz my third wife, an' she'd borned six or seven children, when she died at thirty-five, an', by Joshuy, she'd never once hed a doctor in all her life!" Pop's joy over their dismissal was slightly dimmed by Sally's reception of the news.
ANNIE GAIL: Annie Gail, 1661 NW 6th Court, Miami, Florida, was four years old when "peace came." "I was borned on Faggott's place near Greenville, Alabama. My mother, she worked for Faggott. He wuz her bossman. When she'd go out to de fiel's, I 'member I used to watch her, for somehow I wuz feared she would get away from me. "Now I 'member dat jes ez good as 'twas yesterday. I didn't do anything.
Well, that's where I was borned, on Captain Hamlin's plantation. "Captain Hamlin, he was a greatest lawyer. Henry Hamlin, you know he was the greatest lawyer what ever was, so dey tell me. You see I was small. My mother and father and four brothers all lived there together. Some of the rest were too small to remember much, but dey wuz all borned dare just de samey. Wish I wuz dare right now.
And I had to come over here to-night and tell you." "Janet," Billy's eyes were dim, "I keep wishin' more an' more that ye had a ma. I ain't never thought openly on it fur years, not since ye was fust borned. But as ye grow int' womanhood, ye seem as helpless as ye did then. I wish ye had a ma!" The little halfway house was in front of them.
And all I ask is a chance, with a rifle-butt, at the skull of the Hun who downs him!" "Downs Bruce?" queried Vivier in fine scorn. "The boche he is no borned who can do it. Bruce has what you call it, in Ainglish, the 'charm life. He go safe, where other caniche be pepper-potted full of holes. I've watch heem. I know."
Women like ye don't die, and Mother Moll will come to the hut to-day." "Mother Moll!" echoed Teola. "Mother Moll! Oh, you mean the witch? And will she oh, will she help me so they will never know?" "Yep. And now shut up. Ye air a woman, and was borned for things like this. If ye walks a spell, then I lugs ye across the gully." "And my father and mother " "Shut up, I says," ordered Tess.
"Yes, but thet was afore I was borned. He died, at least mother used ter say she didn't know if he was dead; but father says he's dead as fur's he's concerned." "And your father hed a brother, too. Did yer ever why hear of him?" "Yes, I heard father talkin' about it wonst to mother. I think father's brother got into some row in a bar where a man was killed."
A neighbor took Tom and they brought my baby to me and I stayed by Mis' Petway until they weren't no more danger. Next day it were Squire Tutt's first wife tooken down with the fever and not the week passed before that very Sam Mosbey were borned.
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