m-i-s-h-e-n-a-h-m-a

Updated: May 22, 2025

One day, Susan asked me to prevent Master Maurice from teaching baby such ugly words, that she could not sleep not bad words, but she thought they were Latin. So I watched, and I heard Maurice singing out some of the legend of Hiawatha, and insisting on poor little Awkey telling him what m-i-s-h-e-n-a-h-m-a, spelt.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Young Step-Mother