lean-meat

Updated: May 14, 2025

Byle listened to the solution of the lean-meat mystery with waning attention, for before the explanation was concluded his roving eye caught glimpses of an apparition more interesting than the gardener's dry sarcasm. He discerned, through openings in the boscage fringing the river bank on the Ohio shore, an object like a scarlet flag flying rapidly along. "Greased lightning!

William Henry Venable - A Dream of Empire: Or, The House of Blennerhassett