a-summin'-up

Updated: June 23, 2025

"Down runs Selina Mary, an' back with word "'They're a-summin'-up, says she. "Then Mrs. Pinsent went an' lit eight candles. Four she set 'pon the table, an' four 'pon the mantel-shelf. You could see the blaze out in the street, an' the room lit up, wi' the flowers, an' fruit, an' shinin' glasses red and yellow dahlias the flowers were, that bein' the time o' year.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Delectable Duchy