crookneck-squashes

Updated: May 2, 2025

There wasn't no Mis' Cap'n Brown, and there didn't seem likely to be none. And whether there ever hed been one, nobody know'd. He hed an old black Guinea nigger-woman, named Quassia, that did his work. She was shaped pretty much like one o' these 'ere great crookneck-squashes.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Oldtown Fireside Stories