hog-reef

Updated: July 18, 2026

Hanz was held in high esteem by his neighbors, many of whom persisted in pronouncing his name Toodlebug, and also electing him hog-reef every year, an honor he would invariably decline. He did this, he said, out of respect to the rights of the man last married in the neighborhood.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - The Von Toodleburgs: Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family