impident

Updated: June 3, 2025

"I say, capting," cried another strange voice, it also coming apparently from an invisible speaker, "why upon airth don't you put that impident critter off the boat? I'd do it in a jiffy if 'twas me." "You have my permission to do so, sir," returned the captain, "but perhaps he will go presently of his own accord."

Martha Finley - Elsie at the World's Fair