meetin'-basket

Updated: May 9, 2025

Now all this pleasant prospect was altered, and Moses "never liked to have his 'rangements upsot." "Nor do I. Oh, dear! The more you talk the more I want to stay, and the very more I mustn't. Good-by, I'm going. You can have the caraway cakes and the red apple, and please, please take care my father's 'meetin'-basket."

Evelyn Raymond - The Brass Bound Box

'Cause he ran away when he was a little boy, only a year or so older than I am now." "He was old enough to have had more sense, and so're you. A 'meetin'-basket' was a basket to take to meetin', course. What else you suppose? We didn't have two three hours betwixt times, them days. We went in the morning and stayed till the afternoon service was over.

Evelyn Raymond - The Brass Bound Box