buffer-business

Updated: May 14, 2025

But horse-flesh seemed to be more palatable to him than fish; for, later still, I met him at Toronto, in Upper Canada, mounted upon a powerful dark brown stallion, and leading another, its exact counterpart. "Hollo, Button!" said I, in response to his cheery, "How de dew?" "On horseback again, I see; have you forgotten the Buffer-business, then?" "Forgot the yaller cuss!" replied he. "No, Sir-ree!

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861