a-handling

Updated: June 28, 2025

"I don't think my brother-in-law will take it in that way, Hopkins." "Ah, ma'am, you don't know him, not as I knows him; all the ins and outs and crinks and crannies of him. I knows him as I does the old apple-trees that I've been a-handling for forty year.

Anthony Trollope - The Small House at Allington