jemeses

Updated: May 21, 2025

"Victorious, Happy and glorious," welcomed and privileged by every body in every place; and when he had told his last ghost story, and fairly flourished himself out of doors at the close of a long winter's evening, you might see the hard face of the good man of the house still phosphorescent with his departing radiance, and hear him exclaim, in a paroxysm of admiration, that "Jemeses talk re'ely did beat all; that he was sartainly most a miraculous cre'tur!"

Harriet Beecher Stowe - The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings