esvidos

Updated: May 28, 2025

She found at last a wandering piece of newspaper, which she wrapped over as much of the vegetable as possible. The rest her cape covered, and then she marched on toward the far wires of the electric car-line that had brought her into the country. So vanished the squash of the Esvidos from their eyes. Meantime the Portuguese mother read aloud from the Bible.

Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford - Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East

The small black dog raised his voice, and did his best to inform the Esvidos that a stranger eyed their olive-washing. "You read Portuguese?" asked Miss Elizabeth, smiling on the busy group.

Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford - Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East

But Miss Elizabeth did not know the whole story of the squash of the Esvidos, or of the message that the Biblia had brought to Delpha's heart. Martin put his bare feet down through the thick dust of the country road. It was warm summer, and he was used to going barefoot, even to Sunday-school, from which he was now returning.

Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford - Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East