flower-givin

Updated: June 21, 2025

"You see, Levin, as I kept up the flower-givin', I could see a little love start up in purty Roxy, but she didn't understand it, an' I was as keerful not to skeer it as if it had been a snow-bird hoppin' to a crumb of bread.

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times