obergrown

Updated: July 1, 2025

"But you said this afternoon, aunty, that the Bad Man gave it to him." "De debbil met him right dar," insisted Aunt Hominy, "in dat ole obergrown churchyard, whar de hymns ob God used to be raised befo' de debbil got it. He says to Meshach: 'I make you de sexton hyar. Go git de spade out yonder, whar de dead-house used to be, an' dig among de graves under de myrtle-vines, an' fin' my hat.

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times