Spit, Scarey Ann, and sweat bees
Subtitle: one thing leads to another
By: Kathryn Tucker Windham.
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Montgomery, AL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781588382405
Subjects: Windham, Kathryn Tucker -- Childhood and youth; Thomasville (Ala.) -- Biography; Thomasville (Ala.) -- Social life and customs
Description: Mrs. Windham examines intrinsic country values that she was brought up on, and gives us a true sense of the Southern temperament of that time. The story brings to life old superstitions like "If a grasshopper spits in your eye, you'll go blind" and the silly games children played to pass the time. We are transported to a simpler way of life where entertainment is the world around youfrom the doodle bugs that she and her friend Bessie Gray catch on spit-baited straws, to the decorated frog houses that they build with mud pies and lightning bug tails. This book is sure to please every nostalgic bone in your body.