a-lukin

Updated: May 18, 2025

Whiniver the dooer was open he'd go an' luk out an' then come back an' meow an' wheen an' lay down an' so he kep' on, gittin' waker an' worser, till the snow wuz gone an' grass come up, an' still he'd go a-lukin' toward the ayst, especially nights. Then thayer come up a plant I had never sane, right thayer, an' he'd luk at it an' luk at it loike he wanted it but didn't dar to.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned