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NORTH CAROLINA: The game laws of North Carolina form a droll crazy-quilt of local and state measures, effective and ineffective. In 1909, a total of 77 local game laws were enacted, and only two of state-wide application. During the ten years ending in 1910, a total of 316 game laws were enacted!
The only cheerfulness in the local color was to be noted in the caparison of the donkeys, which we were to find more and more brilliant southward. Do I say the only cheerfulness? I ought to except also the involuntary hilarity of a certain poor man's suit which was so patched together of myriad scraps that it looked as if cut from the fabric of a crazy-quilt.
"Oh, what a funny place!" cried Jess, as she and Peggy, carrying a glass lamp which reeked of kerosene, entered their chamber. The walls were of rough boards with no attempt at ornamentation, a gorgeous checked crazy-quilt covered the bed for though the days are hot on the desert, the nights are quite sharp.
Just as dawn streaked the east they came in sight of what appeared to be a rude shack built of boards. As they came closer they could see that some of the boards had been painted and some had not. Some were painted halfway across, and some only in patches of a foot or two. They had been hastily thrown together. The whole effect, viewed at a distance, resembled nothing so much as a crazy-quilt.
What happened beyond the primrose ring is, perhaps, rather a crazy-quilt affair, having to be patched out of the squares and three-cornered bits of Fancy which the children remembered to bring back with them. I have tried to piece them together into a fairly substantial pattern; but, of course, it can be easily ripped out and raveled into nothing.
"That's the way I've figured it all out the whole, crazy-quilt pattern, and if you have a better scheme, and one that isn't founded on human selfishness, I'm here to listen to it." A long silence fell between them. "Well, dear heart?" she demanded finally. "I wasn't thinking of that," he replied slowly.
In a year, when just eighteen years old, P. Henry, Junior, got married married a rollicking country lass, as foolish as himself done in bravado, going home from a dance, calling a minister out on his porch, in a crazy-quilt, to perform the ceremony.
"Of course," he replied. "You misjudge my ancestry. I'm not a crazy-quilt; I'm patchwork," she said. "There's no difference," he replied, beginning to laugh again. "When my old grandmother sews such things together she calls it a crazy-quilt; but I never thought such a jumble could come to life." "It was the Magic Powder that did it," explained Ojo.
With the "crazy-quilt" a patch-work of heptagons of different hues and patterns around his shoulders, clothing him with all the colors of the rainbow, he sat up in bed, wincing at each concussion. "I might as well get up!" he exclaimed. "I'll see her once more the perverse beauty!" And tossing the kaleidoscopic covering viciously from him, he began to dress.
'I shall be haunted now by the fear that she will go on a lecturing-tour through the country, and exhibit poor Lisa as an interesting example. Mrs. Grubb's mind is like nothing so much as a crazy-quilt. Mrs. Grubb's interest in the education of the defective classes was as short-lived as it was ardent.
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