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The way Delia sees it, “Charleston must
be the most musical place on earth.” Delia “can hear
music in the raindrops beating on the tin roof” and “in
the sound of Mama’s laughter,” but most of all, she
hears the songs of the streets – the “clink of the milk
bottles,” the “wheezy old snuffle of the horse” pulling
the wagon, and the chants of the Chimney Sweep and the
Pepper-Sauce Man. “Whomp-bidda bay!” say the carpenters
working on the house next door; “BLAAAACK-berries!”
sings the vegetable man.
Carolina Shouts
Alan Shroeder, Author
Depot.
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