bub-blow

Updated: June 22, 2025

Martha thought that perhaps she had been a little hard on Cora, "the time she give her the tongue-lashin' for stumblin' over the first lines of her piece, that evenin' of the Sund'-School ent'tainment. Martha could see her now, as she stood then, announcing to the assembled multitude in a high, unmodulated treble: "It was the t-time when l-lilies bub-blow"

Julie Mathilde Lippmann - Martha By-the-Day