Crossword-Solution: GOOBERS 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Hit grow in de groun', hit grow so free; Ti-yi! dem goober pea.' "Sho' 'nuff w'en de goobers 'gun ter ripen up, eve'y time Brer Fox go down ter his patch, he fine whar somebody bin grabblin' 'mongst de vines, en he git mighty mad.

And elsewhere they should have their whacking fill of prairie hen and suckling pig and barbecued shote, and sure-enough beefsteak, and goobers hot from the parching box; and scrapple, and yams roasted in hot wood-ashes; and hotbiscuit and waffles and Parker house rolls--and the thousand and one other good things that may be found in this our country, and which are distinctively and uniquely of this country.

Uncle Sambo had brought his fiddle in, and some of the children were patting and singing and dancing, while others were shelling goobers and picking out scaly-barks to put in the candy; and when the pulling began, if you could have heard the laughing and joking you would have thought there was no fun like a candy stew.

Well, sar, soon ez eber de moon riz, Brer Rabbit, he stole out’n his house, and he lit right out fur dem goobers; and by’mby he sees de tar man er stanin’ dar, an’ he hollers out, ‘Who’s dat er stanin’ dar an’ er fixin’ ter steal Brer Fox’s goobers?’ Den he lis’en, and nobody nuver anser, and he ’gin ter git mad, and he sez, sezee, ‘Yer brack nigger you, yer better anser me wen I speaks ter yer;’ and wid dat he hault off, he did, and hit de tar baby side de head, and his han’ stuck fas’ in de tar.

This weak, frail slip of a girl had deliberately given her life for her convictions; she had died, in order that he might be saved as a witness for the Goobers! Of course Peter had known all along that little Jennie was doomed, that she was throwing herself away, that nothing could save her.