donkeysful

Updated: May 4, 2025

Then come two donkeysful of children, with Kuhn as supercargo; then Ethel on donkey-back, too, with a bunch of wildflowers in her hand, a great straw hat with a crimson ribbon, a white muslin jacket, you know, bound at the waist with a ribbon of the first, and a dark skirt, with a shawl round her feet which Kuhn had arranged.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Newcomes : Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family