buckling-to

Updated: June 22, 2025

Polly cleared off the deserted table for once Joel had all the bread and butter he wanted. Ben took some of Phronsie's medicine, and crawled up into the loft, to bed; and quiet settled down on the little household. "Polly," whispered Ben, as she tucked him in, "it'll be hard buckling-to now, for you, but I guess you'll do it."

Margaret Sidney - Five Little Peppers and How They Grew