done-er

Updated: May 31, 2025

Ching went to his other side, and supported him some fifty yards farther, our way now being through quite a chaos of rocks, which had been loosened in bygone times from the cliff above. Then, so suddenly that we were not prepared, the poor fellow dropped with his full weight upon our arms, and we had to lower him down upon a heap of drifted sand. "No go, sir," he said softly; "I'm a done-er."

George Manville Fenn - Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser