be-booted

Updated: May 4, 2025

Since Burns would not assist, the difficulty of the children now arose. This, however, was soon settled. They should go along. It was two hours' toil for the mother to turn the four brown-limbed, nearly naked, dirty, happy towsle-tops into four little martyrs, befrocked, beribboned, becombed and be-booted. Then they all straggled across the field, Mrs.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned