de-coy

Updated: May 5, 2025

But Pee-wee found it very unpleasant being shut in with him there in the darkness, for, of course, the flashlight could not be kept burning all the time. "I wouldn't do yer no hurt," he assured Pee-wee. "I t'ought mebbe yer wuz a de-coy. Yer ain't, are ye?" he asked suspiciously. "No, I'm not," said Pee-wee, "I'm just what I told you "

Percy Keese Fitzhugh - Tom Slade at Temple Camp