Watch Yourself Go By

It is a humor book. Poor Lin was 'near distracted' no sooner was it announced that 'Al-f-u-r-d' was out of danger than she began gathering the 'green tomattisus' lying in irregular rows on various window sills to ripen in the sun, giving vent to her pent-up 'feelings' thus: 'Huh! Tomattisus! Never was made to eat. They ain't no good, no-way. Pap's right. They're called Jerusalem apples 'caus they wuz first planted by the Jews, who knowed their enemies would eat 'em an' git pizened an' die of cancers, an' Lord knows what else'. She carried the offending fruit to the family swill barrel, where the leavings of the table were deposited. As she raised one big tomato to drop it into the barrel, her hand paused, as she soliloquized: 'No, If tomattisus will pizen pee-pul, they'll pizen hogs. They ain't fit for hogs nohow.