grandboys

Updated: May 28, 2025

Nor do many of them find their subjects abroad a habit practised these many years by your humble speaker, whose only excuse is that he must paint, no matter where he is, and that his life in the summer-time is dominated by his two children, both exiles, and more exactingly still in late years by two little grandboys who have not as yet crossed the ocean.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Outdoor Sketching: Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914

By the time I am dead they will be married good an' hard. I am almost gone as it is, the ole man he's liable to drap off any time yea, Lord, thy servant is ready to go but I do hope that the good master will let me live long enough to hold one of my Biggers grandboys on my knees." "All I've got to say," said the Bishop, "is jus' to watch yo' son-in-law.

John Trotwood Moore - The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills