boardin's

Updated: May 2, 2025

"Oh, they're good enough maybe, if they're what you want. But boardin's boardin'; 'tain't like your own home." "Caleb, it's a wonder to me you don't rent a little house and live in it. You've got money enough; least so everybody says." "Humph! What everybody says is 'most generally lies. What would be the sense of my hirin' a house? I'd have to have a housekeeper and a good one costs like thunder.

Joseph Crosby Lincoln - Thankful's Inheritance