bed-coverin's

Updated: May 28, 2025

I suggested, as Aunt Jane hesitated for the unaccustomed word. "That's it, child. Somehow I can't ricollect these new-fangled words, any more'n I can understand these new-fangled ways. Who'd ever 'a' thought that folks'd go to stringin' up bed-coverin's in their doors?

Eliza Calvert Hall - Aunt Jane of Kentucky