alms-gatherers

Updated: May 22, 2025

If the Juiz was a rich man, he seldom sent out alms-gatherers, but celebrated the whole affair at his own expense, which was sometimes to the extent of several hundred pounds. In the smaller towns a ball took place two or three evenings during the novena, and on the last day there was a grand dinner.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons