l-k-o-m

Updated: June 22, 2025

"Who put that up?" he asked, almost angrily. "I did," said Johnny, and then, anxious to shift any responsibility of the spelling to the shoulders on which it belonged, he added, "but Ben spelled it." "Well, fix it," commanded the disturbed author. "If any of the fellers should see that they'd think we didn't know nothin' at all. Put it w-e-double l-k-o-m."

James Otis - Left Behind: or, Ten Days a Newsboy