civiltude

Updated: May 23, 2025

'Musha thin, thank ye kindly, an' I'm glad to see ye've some notions o' civiltude, though ye do work the wife harder than is dacent. But after a single 'draw, Andy took the pipe in his fingers and looked curiously into its bowl. 'It's the quarest tobacco I ever tasted, he observed: 'throth if I don't think it's nothin' but chips o' bark an' dead leaves.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement