a-squattin

Updated: July 6, 2026

Yes, it was Tony Kirk, sure enough, a man who would never shoot a boy if he knew it. "What are you doing here," asked Tony, "a-squattin' in the dirt at supper-time?" Harry told him what he was doing, and how he had been frightened, and then the remark about supper-time made him think of his sister. "My senses!" he cried, "there's Kate! she must think I'm lost." "Kate!" exclaimed Tony. "What Kate?

Frank Richard Stockton - What Might Have Been Expected