a-botherin

Updated: June 19, 2025

"Wot d'ye mean, youngster, by goin' on in that there fashion all the mornin', a-botherin' everybody, and makin' a fool o' yourself like that? eh!" "What's that to you?" said I savagely, for my heart was sore and heavy, and I could not stand the interference of a stranger.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Fighting the Whales