green-handle

Updated: May 25, 2025

But dese heah yaller freckle niggers 'ain't got no principle to 'em. I done heerd dat all my life an' Silvy she done proved it. Time Wash an' me was married he was a man in good chu'ch standin' a reg'lar ordained sexton, at six dollars a month an' I done de sweepin' for him. Dat's huccome I happened to have dat green-handle sto'e broom. Dat's all I ever did git out o' his wages.

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

Ricollec', I had one o' dese heah green-handle sto'e brooms, an' Pompey he come over to my cabin one mornin' an' he say, 'Sis' Tamar, he say, 'would you mind loandin' Sis' Sophy-Sophia dat green-handle straw broom dat you sweeps out de chu'ch-house wid? You 'member, I was married to Wash Williams dat time Wash Williams wha' live down heah at de cross-roads now. He's married to Yaller Silvy now.

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches