futs

Updated: May 22, 2025

Now, Jack, you git out av that wather pail," as the beautiful bird leaped into the half-filled drinking bucket and began to take a bath. "Now luk at that," she shouted, "ye little rascal, come out o' that oven," for now the Blackbird had taken advantage of the open door to scramble into the dark warm oven. "Thayer he goes to warrum his futs. Oh, ye little rascal!

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

The cook, when she learned that fears were entertained about the Cat staying, said: "Shure, she'd 'tind to thot; wanst a Cat licks her futs, shure she's at home." So she deftly caught the unapproachable royalty in her apron, and committed the horrible sacrilege of greasing the soles of her feet with pot-grease.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Animal Heroes