. Happy holidays . oo busy eating. They had a grand supper. There was break-fast strip, and roast turkey and fried chicken, andmutton and rice and hominy and sweet potatoesand peas and beans and baked apples and cabbageand hoecake and hot biscuits and corn muffinsand butter-cakes and waffles and maple syrup. When they were through eating supper, it wasquite dark, and they all went home, even BrerPossum, and left LiT Hannibal sitting there all byhimself. Well, after a while it began to get Mocking Bird came out, and he looked atLiT Hannibal and then he began to scream, justlike Ol M
. Happy holidays . oo busy eating. They had a grand supper. There was break-fast strip, and roast turkey and fried chicken, andmutton and rice and hominy and sweet potatoesand peas and beans and baked apples and cabbageand hoecake and hot biscuits and corn muffinsand butter-cakes and waffles and maple syrup. When they were through eating supper, it wasquite dark, and they all went home, even BrerPossum, and left LiT Hannibal sitting there all byhimself. Well, after a while it began to get Mocking Bird came out, and he looked atLiT Hannibal and then he began to scream, justlike Ol Miss Guinea Hen: Catch him! Catch him! Catch him! Brer Screech Owl looked down from a tree andhe said very hoarsely: Who! Who! Who-oo! 14 Happy Holidays And then all the frogs began to say, loud andshrill, LiT Hannibal! LIT Hannibal! So LiT Hannibal got up from his pine stumpand he said, I reckon I better go home to mygranmammy. Well, LiT Hannibal started for home slowly,because his feet hurt and he was hungry. When. LiI Hannibal started for those eggs, singing all the way he came to the pine grove by the schoolhousethe shadows came out from behind the trees andfollowed him, and that was much worse thanseeing the schoolmistress. But LiT Hannibalgot away from them all right. He crawled underthe fence and ran across the cotton field andthere in the door of the cabin was his grandaddy Labor Day 15 with a lantern. His grandaddy had been outlooking for LiT Hannibal. Why, LiT Hannibal, where you been allday? asked his grandaddy. Oh, LiT Han, said his granmammy, heresyour corn mush. I kep it warm on the hearth,but afore you eat your supper, LiT Han, justake your HT basket and run round to thechicken house for a couple of eggs. So LiT Hannibal took his HT basket and hestarted for those eggs, singing all the way. Yousee, he reckoned he was mighty glad to be athome, and toting again. THE BROWNIE OF BLEDNOCK ELIZABETH W. GRIERSONTHE WEE MAN COMES TO TOWN Did you ever hear how a brownie cam
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