crakling

Updated: May 2, 2025

'Concise and candid, if it doesn't make me wiser; but I'm compensated for that in finding something of which you are equally ignorant with myself, Mr. Holt. Remarks of a more superficial character were extorted by the severity of the weather from the inmates of the kitchen. 'Arrah, Miss Libby asthore, wor ye able to sleep one wink last night wid the crakling of the threes? I niver heerd'

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