ciferin

Updated: May 26, 2025

You never saw anybody take on as his poor old mother did when she heard about it. "Hank," said she to the boy's father, who was forging a bank note in the chimney corner, "this all comes o' not edgercatin' 'im when he was a baby. Ef he'd larnt spellin' and ciferin' he never could a-ben elected."

Ambrose Bierce - The Fiend's Delight