She saw a beautiful, bright, attractive, little face out of which
big, saucy, grey eyes shaded by long curling black lashes looked
winningly at her; she saw a sweet, childish, red mouth, a mass of
short, yellow curls, and a thin but graceful little figure.

"I knows the names of aller ole Aunt Blue-Gum Tempy's Peruny
Pearline's chillens," he was saying proudly: "Admiral Farragut
Moses the Prophet Esquire, he's the bigges'; an' Alice Ann Maria
Dan Step-an'-Go-Fetch-It, she had to nuss all the res.'; she say
fas' as she git th'oo nussin' one an' 'low she goin' to have a
breathin' spell here come another one an' she got to nuss it.
An' the nex' is Mount Sinai Tabernicle, he name fer the church
where of Aunt BlueGum Tempy's Peruny Pearline takes her
sackerment; an' the nex' is First Thessalonians; Second
Thessalonians, he's dead an' gone to the Bad Place 'cause he skunt
a cat,--I don't mean skin the cat on a actin' role like me an'
Wilkes Booth Lincoln does,--he skunt a sho' 'nough cat what was a
black cat, what was a ole witch, an' she come back an' ha'nt him
an' he growed thinner an' thinner an' weasler an' weasler, tell
finely he wan't nothin' 't all but a skel'ton, an' the Bad Man
won't 'low nobody 't all to give his parch' tongue no water, an'
he got to, ever after amen, be toast on a pitchfork. An' Oleander
Magnolia Althea is the nex'," he continued, enumerating Peruny
Pearline's offspring on his thin, well molded fingers, "she got
the seven year itch; an' Gettysburg, an' Biddle-&-Brothers-Mercantile-Co.;
he name fer the sto' where ole Aunt Blue-Gum Tempy's Peruny Pearline
gits credit so she can pay when she fetches in her cotton in the
fall; an' Wilkes Booth Lincoln, him an' me's twins, we was borned
the same day only I's borned to my mama an' he's borned to his 'n