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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Boughten" carpets took the place of the yellow paint and the braided mats once thought the proper thing for the "spare room" set apart for company, and articles of luxury, in the shape of high chests of drawers and hard hair-cloth sofas, found their way into the houses of the ambitious and "well-to-do" among them.
"Now, that's Dandelion. Its roots makes awful good coffee. Granny allers uses it. She says that it is healthier than store coffee, but Maw says she likes boughten things best, and the more they cost the better she likes them. "Now, that's Ginseng. It has a terrible pretty flower in spring. There's tons and tons of it sent to China.
And you know what my demand for an accounting brought ..." "Abuse and slander from that boughten sheet, the Alta yes," retorted Sinton. "Well, you have the consolation of knowing that no honest man believes it." King was silent for a moment. Then his clenched hand fell upon the table. "By the Eternal!" he exclaimed, with a sudden upthrust of the chin. "This town must have a decent paper.
My uncle used to say that nobody with tow breeches on him could ride a horse without being thrown they pricked so. The suit which I had grown into "the Potsdam clothes," we called them often, but more often "the boughten clothes" had been grown out of and left behind in a way of speaking.
Same with a bird. How do I know whether 'twas Squire Tom, or Squire Dick, or Squire Harry as reared a pheasant I happen to knock over on a moony night? Birds will fly, as Nature meant 'em; and, again, it may be just a wild bird, as never came out of no boughten egg at all, but belonged to the country, like his father and his grandfather afore him.
If people are so situated they can't get it fresh, they will take it canned, which is undoubtedly good for those in the canning business; but we feel that we who have better food ought not to be expected to treat their boughten canned goods very seriously.
Better broom was niver made, an' there niver wus ony other in th' famb'ly till he married that Kitty Connor, the lowest av the low, an' it's meself was all agin her, wid her proide an' her dirthy sthuck-up ways' nothin' but boughten things wuz good enough fur her, her that niver had a dacint male till she thrapped moi Larry.
They had learned to weave snow-shoes in Indian fashion, too, and Bolderwood taught Enoch to tan and "work" the deer hides so well that their mother was able to use the pliable leather for moccasins for the family. "Boughten" shoes they had; but they were kept for best, for the money to purchase them with came hard indeed to the widow.
The teacher at the Guild was even more beautiful than Amarilly's fancy, fed by the little girl's vivid description, had pictured. "Her hair ain't boughten," decided the keen-eyed critic as she gazed adoringly at the golden braids crowning the small head.
Sometimes there didn't seem to be so many passing, and I thought of starting, and then they'd begin again. 'Twas a terrible stream of people to me. I began to think my new clothes and the buttons were all thrown away. I stayed there a good while." I thought it made no difference at all about my having those boughten buttons."
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