good-mawn

Updated: July 19, 2025

With that he leaped out of bed, and shouted loudly: "Zen! Hello, Xenophon!" In answer, an ancient, very black darky put his head in at the door, his warped and wrinkled visage showing under his grizzled hair like charred paper in a fall of pine ashes. He said: "Good-mawn', suh. Yessuh. Hit's done pump' full. Good-mawn', suh."

Booth Tarkington - The Gentleman from Indiana