"Piggin" Quotes from Famous Books
... doubt as to the turn to take, and we sat there waiting ten minutes—we had already caught some of the native infection of restfulness—for some human being to come along, who could direct us on our way. At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head. After a little patient investigation, necessary to overcome the child's shyness, we learned what we wished to know, and at the end of about five miles from the ... — The Conjure Woman • Charles W. Chesnutt
... saith I; for I was set upon keeping my temper. "What dost thou say to Beryamen Piggin, ... — A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales • Amelie Rives |