anachorisms

Updated: May 2, 2025

In the outer shed, Cæsar, clad like the Indians and the pioneers in buckskin, was mending the plough-gear, and talking with great loquacity to another negro, of the type known then and later as "the new nigger," the target of the plantation jokes, because of his "greenness," being of a fresh importation. But after all, if a story is well told, why carp at slight anachorisms?

Mary Noailles Murfree - The Frontiersmen