calf-trade

Updated: June 22, 2025

And sure enough, Josiah wanted me to dicker, if I could, for a calf from Mount Vernon, swop one of our yearlin's for it if I couldn't do no better. But I told him right out and out, that I couldn't go into a calf-trade with my mind wrought up as I knew it would be.

Marietta Holley - Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician