Names
What is the girl's name?
Her name is Sarah.
What disease did the Apache boy have?
He had swamp fever.
What was the girl's dog's name?
His/Its name was Buster.
How can you say the following using proper, present-day grammar?
Tote the load of another person.
Put yourself in another person's shoes.
Where was the Apache boy going when he ran away?
He was going to Carlisle School for Indians in Pennsylvania.
What is the Apache boy's name?
His name is Sky.
What medicine did mama want to help with the fever?
She wanted quinine.
What was Papa doing when they found the Apache boy?
He was working in the fields.
How can you say the following using proper, present-day grammar?
Aine it enough round here to do.
Isn't there enough to do around here?
Where do many Apache come from?
They come from the mountains.
What is the name of the man who wants to take the Apache boy back to the school?
His name is Mr. Wratten.
Why didn't Mama want the Apache boy to scratch his sores?
She didn't want them to get infected.
What did Papa get from the barn?
He got his bible.
How can you say the following using proper, present-day grammar?
I might can't save him.
I may not be able to save him.
What did Mama ask the Apache boy to eat?
She asked him to eat grits.
What is the girl's father's name?
His name is Lee Andy.
What kind of tea did Mama want to make for the Apache boy?
She wanted to make sassafras tea.
What is an Un-person?
It is a person who is unkind, ungrateful, unpleasant, unfair, unanything.
How can you say the following using proper, present-day grammar?
He's fixin' to leave.
He's getting ready to leave.
What was one food the Apache boy refused to eat?
He refused to eat pork.
What is the girl's mother's name?
Her name is Georgianne.
What did the sores on the Apache boy's body look like?
They looked like mosquito bites.
Who was feeling put out? Why were they being felt put out?
Sarah was feeling put out because she and her mother had done so much to keep Sky alive and he was being very ungrateful.
How can you say the following using proper, present-day grammar? --
Son, you're 'mongst the living this morning, 'cause of the Good Lord working through my wife and daughter.
Son, you're alive because my wife and daughter saved you.
Why did the girl think the Apache listened to her father?
She thought he listened to him because he was the head of the household.