corklesville

Updated: June 3, 2025

And thus it had come to pass that within twenty-four hours thereafter the boy had shaken the dust of New York from his feet even to resigning from the Magnolia, and a day later was found bending over a pine desk knocked together by a hammer and some ten-penny nails in a six-by-nine shanty, the whole situated at the mouth of a tunnel half a mile from Corklesville, where he was at work on the pay-roll of the preceding week.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero