judge-mens

Updated: May 17, 2025

So the child stared up the stately panelled wall at the gloomy old portrait of Judge Trenton with his much curled wig and black satin gown and the stiff scroll of vellum with fat be-ribboned seals attached and asked naively, "If your father was a judge-man why aren't we judge-mens?" Grandy laughed his short, hard laugh.

Lucille Van Slyke - Little Miss By-The-Day