quilting-parties

Updated: May 24, 2025

Sometimes the boys went coon-hunting and there were corn-shuckings, house-raisings and quilting-parties. "Does anybody round here play the banjo?" "None o' my boys," said the old woman, "but Tom Green's son down the creek he follers pickin' the banjo a leetle." "Follows pickin' " the Blight did not miss that phrase. "What do you foller fer a livin'?" the old man asked me suddenly.

John Fox - A Knight of the Cumberland