BROTHER BEN AND SISTER SAL {excerpt}

Ole Sis Sal's got a foot so big,
Dat she canin't wear no shoes an' gaiters.
So all she want is some red calico,
An' dem big yaller yam sweet taters."
-snip-

Thomas W. Talley "Negro Folk Rhymes" {Kennikat Press Edition, 1968, p. 47; originally published by The Macmillan Company, 1922}