cotton-wagon

Updated: May 27, 2025

He's gone for my Christmus gif', an' I'm put to it to know what tremenjus thing he's a-layin' out to fetch me thet takes a cotton-wagon to haul it. Of co'se I imagine everything, from a guyaskutus down. I always did like to git things too big to go in my stockin'. What you say, Mis' Blakes? Do I hang up my stockin'? Well, I reckon.

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches