a-perspiring

Updated: June 22, 2025

"'A-playing of my flute into the airshaft, says Patsey Rourke, 'and a-perspiring in me own windy to the joyful noise of the passing trains and the smell of liver and onions and a-reading of the latest murder in the smoke of the cooking is well enough for me, says he.

O. Henry - The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million