a-forebodin

Updated: May 12, 2025

"Now," sez I, "you jest do them shoes right up and carry 'em back to the store, and if you have got to have a new pair, git some that will be more becomin' to a human creeter, let alone a class-leader, and a perfessor, and a grandfather." So at last I prevailed he a-forebodin' to the very last that it would make talk to see him in such shoes.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair