bread-cake

Updated: June 16, 2025

I heard my father mutter, as he gave me a piece of bread-cake, and pointed to the boy, before taking the cork from a bottle, and slowly dropping a spoonful or two of spirit between the man's teeth. After this he waited, and I saw that the boy was watching him wildly.

George Manville Fenn - Mass' George: A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah