bare-lookin

Updated: May 17, 2025

A peasant had come home to his bare-lookin' cottage, and found his wife dead in her bed. He didn't rave round and act, and strike an attitude. No, he jest turned round and sot there on his hard stool, with his hands on his knees, a-facin' the bare future.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair