Jim always would rather read than eat, and he hates shindigs of this sort a little worse 'n I do."
"Oh, Money! Money!"
Eleanor Hodgman Porter
Dey wus at big shindigs de southern white folks had 'fore de war.
"Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2"
Work Projects Administration