skweeled

Updated: May 4, 2025

Then, after thinking for a moment, she began, with great earnestness: "Once pun er time there was er bad little girl, an' she wouldn't min' nobody, nor do no way nobody wanted her to; and when her mother went ter give her fyssick, you jes ought ter seen her cuttin' up! she skweeled, an' she holler'd, an' she kicked, an' she jes done ev'y bad way she could; an' one time when she was er goin' on like that the spoon slipped down her throat, an' choked her plum ter death; an' not long after that, when she was er playin' one day "

Louise Clarke Pyrnelle - Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life