half-purring

Updated: May 8, 2025

I never meant to spoil anybody's life, and I can meet her down at the end of the trail and never fear." Just then a half-wailing, half-purring cry came from Aunty Boone, who was standing beside a gnarled cypress-tree. "I knowed the morning we picked up Little Blue Flower, back at Pawnee Rock, we was pickin' up trouble for the rest of the trail. I see it then.

Margaret Hill McCarter - Vanguards of the Plains