lady-bite

Updated: May 13, 2025

"You know your grandfather!" and you began to sell out bites at three pins for a lady-bite and six pins for a hog-bite, and a boy bought a lady-bite and then took a hog-bite, he was held in contempt, and could by no means pass it off for a good joke on you; it was considered mean. In the Boy's Town there was almost as much stone-throwing as there was in Florence in the good old times.

William Dean Howells - A Boy's Town