hard-wukin

Updated: May 23, 2025

"Dat's right, Mistah Swift, so I had. But I 'done tried, an' couldn't git any. I ast seberal colored men, but dey'd radder whitewash an' clean chicken coops. I guess I'll hab t' go it alone. I ast a white man yisterday ef he wouldn't like t' pitch in an' help, but he said he didn't like to wuk. He was a tramp, an' he had de nerve to ask me fer money me, a hard-wukin' coon."

Victor [pseud.] Appleton - Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road