Crossword-Solution: BES 3 letters, 40 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

When we got close enough, we understood the words, and they made me sick: “Run! Run fo’ yo’ life! Hit’s a lion; I kin see him thoo de glass! Run, boys; do please heel it de bes’ you kin.

Den Tenie say she wanter git her bes' frock; her mistiss say no, she doan need no mo' frock, en w'en dat one got dirty she could git a clean one whar she wuz gwine.

Must be perfectly dreadful to dress like for church, and sit still in a stuffy little room, and do your "abs," and "bes," and "bis," and "bos," all day long.

Yass, SAH!--dey's ten o' dese hyah vergims dar, five of 'em sleepin' an' five of 'em watchin', an' a-takin' tuhns at hit, an' mebby dat how-come free or fouah dey bes' young colo'hed mens been projickin' aroun' dar all arternoon, a-helpin' dem dat's a-waitin' twell de bridegroom COM eth!" We seen a little knot of them, down the road there in front of the church, gathering around the nigger that had been with Sam.

This was a small copy of one of the ancient Egyptian gods--that of Bes, who represented the destructive power of nature.