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Updated: May 3, 2025
Oh, they're all sorts. He ain't no ways partic'lar thess so a thing is po' an' miser'ble enough. That's about all he seems to require of anything. He don't never go to school hardly 'thout a garter-snake or two or a lizard or a toad-frog somewheres about him.
A bull or boar is not to be mentioned as such in mixed company, but male-brute and male-hog are used as euphemisms. A female shoat is called a gilt. In the Smokies a toad is called a frog or a toad-frog, and a toadstool is a frog-stool. What the mountaineers call hemlock is the shrub leucothoe.
It got so for a-while at one school thet not a child in school could be hired to put his hand in the wood-box, not knowin' ef any piece o' bark or old wood in it would turn out to be a young alligator or toad-frog thawin' out. Teacher hisself picked up a chip, reckless, one day, an' it hopped up, and knocked off his spectacles. Of cose it wasn't no chip.
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