Name: Armazindy
Author: James Whitcomb Riley
ISBN: 978-1589633520

Armazindy

By James Whitcomb Riley 23 Mar, 2021

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Armazindy;—fambily name Ballenger,—you’ll find the same, As her Daddy answered it, In the old War-rickords yit,— And, like him, she’s airnt the good Will o’ all the neighborhood.— Name ain&r ... Read more

Armazindy;—fambily name

Ballenger,—you’ll find the same,

As her Daddy answered it,

In the old War-rickords yit,—

And, like him, she’s airnt the good

Will o’ all the neighborhood.—

Name ain’t down in History,—

But, i jucks! it ort to be!

Folks is got respec’ fer her—

Armazindy Ballenger!—

’Specially the ones ’at knows

Fac’s o’ how her story goes

From the start:—Her father blowed

Up—eternally furloughed—

When the old “Sultana” bu’st,

And sich men wuz needed wusst.—

Armazindy, ’bout fourteen-

Year-old then—and thin and lean

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As a killdee,—but—my la!—

Blamedest nerve you ever saw!

The girl’s mother’d allus be’n

Sickly—wuz consumpted when

Word came ’bout her husband.—So

Folks perdicted she’d soon go—

(Kind o’ grief I understand,

Losin’ my companion,—and

Still a widower—and still

Hinted at, like neighbers will!)

So, app’inted, as folks said,

Ballenger a-bein’ dead,

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