guess-story

Updated: May 13, 2025

"I sent him off," she repeated, "with a flea in his ear. I could see what the old fool was driving after, and I as good as told him so. If it had been his favorite, his adopted son, Bill Hinkley, it would have been another guess-story I reckon.

William Gilmore Simms - Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky