ells-fire

Updated: May 13, 2025

You see just as the flunkey flunked on the chestnut burr, the fire cracker went off, and the man jumped up and said "Ells-fire, h'am blowed," and he had his hands on his pants, and the air was full of smoke, and dad got on his knees and said, "Now I lay me," and Mr.

George W. (George Wilbur) Peck - Peck's Bad Boy Abroad: Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad: in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904