lan'son

Updated: May 17, 2025

In less than a minute, as it seem'd, I heard a pounding of hoofs, and had barely time to follow Delia up the ladder and pull it after me, when two of the dragoons rode skurrying by the house, and pass'd on yelling. Their cries were hardly faint in the distance before there came another three. "'A's a lost man, now, for sure," said one: "Be dang'd if 'a's not took the road back to Lan'son!"

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Splendid Spur