i-i-jes

Updated: May 28, 2025

There was a heaving of the full bust, a quickened breathing, that betokened suppressed excitement. "I-I-jes' seen a rattlesnake out in de gyahden," she stammered. The blacksmith ran to the door. "Which way? Whar wuz he?" he cried.

Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt - The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays