c-c-chores

Updated: May 4, 2025

Therefore, still gurgling his milk, he spluttered: "S-s-s-ay, Katy! if a man, if a m-m-man can earn a dollar a day doin' c-c-chores, all the c-c-chores, how much can a boy earn doin' h-h-ha-half of 'em?" "Not a single cent, if I had to pay him, and he were such a boy as you. A boy so mean he'd take a brass bound box out of a girl's hands and lose it for her, and then wouldn't budge to go get it.

Evelyn Raymond - The Brass Bound Box