e-b-e-n-e-z-e-r

Updated: May 5, 2025

"Who's there?" cried a voice, and added, "I knew the dogs ought to be loose." "Who's there?" also asked the other voice, with something very familiar to Phoebus in its sounds. "E-b-e-n-e-z-e-r John-son!" answered Jimmy, in his deepest bass tones, mentally considering that a ghost might carry more terror than a robber, after that tale.

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times