hyearabouts

Updated: May 3, 2025

We have offered time and time again to build you a house fo’ buzzuds, they bein’ the only birds hyearabouts, but you ’low that you ain’t fav’ble to tamin’ ’em." "I wuz raised in Tennessee, an’ we-uns had a house for martins made out’n gourds, an’ it was pearty." The pride with which she repeated this particular claim to honor in an alien land never diminished with repetition.

Marie Manning - Judith of the Plains