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Updated: June 7, 2025
The match-maker had a difficulty with me; perhaps, like some ladies, I showed myself too eager for union at any price; but certainly the first who was picked out to be my bedfellow, declined the honour without thanks. He was an old, heavy, slow-spoken man, I think from Yankeeland, looked me all over with great timidity, and then began to excuse himself in broken phrases.
Here it was good to find the sassafras growing side by side with the persimmon, although when, for old acquaintance' sake, I put a leaf into my mouth I was half glad to fancy it a thought less savory than some I had tasted in Yankeeland.
There was something final and foreordained about it, and unless it were discouraged it might prevent what Markham was beginning to very much desire. "Quality, sir, is not made. It is!" Levi grunted, and Bob, paying a visit to the room on sufferance, snarled resentfully. "You cut that out, boy!" Markham snapped; "in Yankeeland it doesn't go.
A man might step out to the city limit, and stand with one leg in full Yankeeland, thrilling with enterprise and emulation, and the other planted, as it were, in the "Patriarchal Times." Elsewhere along the effaced line of Mason and Dixon the sections die away into each other: here they stand face to face, and stare.
"I've lots and lots of questions, then, To ask if you're so old, And if you will not answer them, Please do not think me bold. "In fourteen ninety-two, when Chris Columbus westward sailed, When he discovered Yankeeland, Was he, then, later jailed? "Did Shakespeare write those dramas old, Or did Lord Bacon's pen? When Joan rambled in Lorraine, Were you out crawling then?
Each passing moment brought the racing train still nearer the border, to that invisible line that marks the end of Yankeeland and the beginning of the British possessions. The sheriff knew this and beat loudly upon the car door with an iron gun. The Governor let the sash fall at the top of the door and spoke, or rather yelled, to the deputy.
A well-regulated memory would have held fast to such figures: mine is certain only that there were four eggs in the mocking-bird's nest. Mr. G. was a man of enterprise, at any rate; a match for any Yankee, although he had come to Florida not from Yankeeland, but from northern Georgia. I hope all his crops are still thriving, especially his white roses and his Marshal Niels.
It was a splendid escape valve for his pent-up feelings, and Hugh carried everything before him, taking by turns both sides of the question, and effectually silencing the two combatants, who said to each other in parting: "We shall hear from that Kentuckian again, though whether in Rebeldom or Yankeeland we cannot tell." Claib had brought two letters from the office, one for Mrs.
The heavy dining-room table which meant so much to the family went for a song to a young man recently come from Yankeeland, whose open boast it was like Eliphalet's secret one that he would one day grow rich enough to snap his fingers in the face of the Southern aristocrats. Mr. James was not there. But Mr.
I never thought they raised such people up in Yankeeland as him. You can bet he'll make his mark. He'll be a judge before he's ten years older; and they do well to get him here. And what I say is: where did he get his eddication? He is an orphan too, like you, James ... raised by an uncle so far as he had a raisin'. But the uncle fooled him. He promised him an eddication, and then went back on it.
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