a-drainin

Updated: May 10, 2025

He don't want no one to live but himself; and he's mighty handsum to me, sayin' my clocks are all a cheat, and that we ruinate the country, a-drainin' every drop of money out of it, a-callin' me a Yankee broom and what not. But it ain't all jist Gospel that he says.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - The Clockmaker : Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville