doggeries

Updated: October 18, 2025

You know the kind of street Main Street always used to be in our section half plank-road and turnpike, and the rest mud-hole, and a lot of stores and doggeries strung along with false fronts a story higher than the back, and here and there a decent building with the gable end to the public; and a court-house and jail and two taverns and three or four churches.

William Dean Howells - Complete March Family Trilogy