Old Spookses’ Pass (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
I. WE'D camped that night on Yaller Bull Flat,— Thar was Possum Billy, an' Tom, an' me. Right smart at throwin' a lariat Was ...
I. WE'D camped that night on Yaller Bull Flat,— Thar was Possum Billy, an' Tom, an' me. Right smart at throwin' a lariat Was ...
Jap Miller down at Martinsville's the blamedest feller yit! When _he_ starts in a-talkin' other folks is apt to quit!-- 'Pears like ...
Sis Hannah May Liza, so Emphraim sayed,Stole out 'neaf a sycamo' tree an' prayedTo de Lawd in Hebbin, an' she ...
Rock-a-by baby, woolly and brown…(There's a shout at the door an' a big red light…)Lil' coon baby, mammy is down…Han's ...
I BE'N down in ole Kentucky Fur a week er two, an' say,'T wuz ez hard ez breakin' oxen Fur to tear ...
FOLKS ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits;Him dat giv' de squir'ls de bushtails made de ...
'Tain't no usen being skar'd of congers,E'n lettin black cats turn ur back;Jest go'n er bout yuh bisnes,An let the ...
Hab you evah laid 'wake dreamin'B'ildin' kassels in de air,Wid de windahs purtty stain glass,Marbell hall, and windin' stair;An' a ...
So they won't ship me over today, eh?Too old, did you say, an' too lame?It's a hard knock, Cap'n, t' ...
I used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck--It made no diff'rence how or when or ...
Mornin', I sez to 'im, Gloomy, 'e seemed to be.Glum an' unsociable. Comes in the shop "Mornin'," I ...
FOLKS ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits; Him dat giv' de squir'ls de bushtails made ...
Now Eddie Malone got a swell grammyfone to draw all the trade to his store; An' sez he: "Come along ...
Drunk or sober Uncle Jim Played the boy; Never glum or sour or grim, Oozin' joy. Most folks thought he ...
I was drivin' my two-mule waggin, With a lot o' truck for sale, Towards Macon, to git some baggin' (Which ...
I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones, Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones, And ...
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