a-chinnin

Updated: May 24, 2025

"I go brang Mees Jan's apron; da goat eat it oop." "Ye did, did ye! What ye givin' us? Didn't I see ye a-chinnin' 'er whin I come over de hill she a-leanin' up ag'in' de fence, an' youse a-talkin' ter 'er, an' ole Blowhard cryin' like his heart was broke?" "Eat up what apron?" said Tom, thoroughly mystified over the situation. "Stumpy eat da apron I brang back da half ta Mees Jan."

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Tom Grogan