alley-house

Updated: May 24, 2025

Do you think I forget our alley-house with its three rooms? the carpentering by day, and the arithmetic by night? the sweltering, sultry Sunday mornings in church, and the afternoons sniffling over the catechism among the rain-butts in the back-yard?

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864