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Updated: June 12, 2025
I know all about musical instruments from a pipe-organ to a corn-stalk fiddle. There ain't a man lives, sir, that can tell me any news about any instrument that has to be pounded, blowed, scraped, grinded, picked, or wound with a key. "'You get me what you like, dad, says Marilla, who couldn't keep her feet on the floor from joy. 'Of course you know what to select.
Soon he was on his way, wearing his fur coat, and hopping along on his corn-stalk rheumatism crutch, while his pink nose was twinkling in the frosty air like a red lantern on the back of an automobile. "A loaf of home-made bread and three and a half pounds of granulated sugar," said Uncle Wiggily to the monkey-doodle gentleman who kept the grocery store.
To think how many men preach the Gospel of God all their lives long, and have never set a living soul free. I will do one such Christian felony, by the help of Christ." As he spoke, the sound of a corn-stalk fiddle, and of foresters' naked feet dancing on the floor of the old Milburn cabin, came crooning out in the night.
So I don't mean anything but I'd like to shake hands on it, just the same." "Jarvis!" She let him seize both her hands and shake them up and down. "You do mean something!" "Come out in the hall and do the corn-stalk prance with me." "The corn-stalk prance! What in the world is that? Are you crazy?"
He had fashioned a corn-stalk fiddle that instrument so dear to rural children! and he had been sawing away on it to his own satisfaction and Tennessee's unbounded admiration for the last half-hour. He had forgotten that pursuing conscience till it seized upon him again in the tanyard. "Oh, Birt," he quavered out, suddenly, "I hain't laid eyes on Nate."
What could a mattock and shovel be wanted for but to dig their graves? Shorty stepped over a little distance to a large clump of "red-sticks." These grow in long wands of brilliant red, as straight as a corn-stalk, and slenderer. They are much used about the farms of the South for rods for rough measurement. He cut one off about six feet long and stripped off its leaves.
There were the same reed and thatched huts, almost all surrounded by spacious yards fenced by corn-stalk walls through which the inmates could see easily but be seen with difficulty.
Her dark colouring and piquant features possessed a quality very close to beauty, and her smile at Sally, at a moment when the girl, sweeping close, made her friend a special salutation, was undoubtedly a very attractive thing. A burst of enthusiastic applause greeted the final whirl and bows of the "corn-stalk prance," and Sally, breathless, dropped upon the bottom step of the wide staircase.
You couldnt do such a thing, Billy Kirby you couldnt do it if you tried. Whats that, old corn-stalk! you sapless stub! cried the wood- chopper. You have grown wordy, since the affair of the turkey; but if you are for a single shot, here goes at that bird which comes on by himself.
"Your new red, white and blue striped rheumatism crutch is ready for you," went on Nurse Jane. "I gnawed it for you out of a fine large corn-stalk." Uncle Wiggily had broken his other crutch, if you will kindly remember, when he slipped as he was coming back from the store, where he went for Mrs. Wagtail, the goat lady.
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