Flowers and fruit from the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

THE PEARL OF ORR’S ISLAND.

The Bible.

“This ’ere old Bible,—why it’s jest like yer mother—ye rove and ramble and cut up round the world without her a spell, and mebbe think the old woman ain’t so fashionable as some; but when sickness and sorrow comes, why there ain’t nothin’ else to go back to. Is there, now?”