dripping-pans

Updated: July 28, 2026

"Why, man, all their dripping-pans are pure gold, and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold; all the prisoners they take are fettered in gold; and for rubies and diamonds they go forth on holidays and gather 'em by the seashore!"

Mary Johnston - Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings