Butter Bean

Well, sir, I looked at wife, an 'wife, she looked at me, an' then we both thess looked out at the butter-bean arbor. ❋ Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels (N/A)

We were the first to see the frost that "lies heavy on the palings and tips with silver the tops of the butter-bean poles, where the sere and yellow pods are chattering in the chilly breeze." ❋ La Salle Corbell Pickett (1889)

But when it was sent, Ezra found the circuit of the butter-bean arbor too circumscribed a promenade, and began taking the imaginary Miss Myrtle with him down through his orchard and potato-patch. ❋ Ruth McEnery Stuart (1886)

Two weeks passed before Ezra saw his way clearly to write the proposed letter, but he did, nevertheless, in the interval, walk up and down his butter-bean arbor on moonlight nights, imagining Miss Myrtle beside him -- Miss Myrtle, named for his favorite flower. ❋ Ruth McEnery Stuart (1886)

o 'the butter-bean arbor -- clumb it thess like a cat -- an' there he set, a-swingin 'his feet under him, an' laughin ', the rain thess a-streakin' his hair all over his face. ❋ Ruth McEnery Stuart (1886)

"Rose Mary," said Uncle Tucker as he came and stood beside her as she began to train the clambering butter-bean vines around their tall poles, "young Everett has got to go on to New York to-night on the train from Boliver, and I told him you would be mighty glad to help him off in time. ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)