mowchin

Updated: May 22, 2025

So 'cardenly, I laid into the mess of it, workin' off the bank where the trees was drownin' themselves head-down in the roosh just such weather as this an' the brook creepin' up on me all the time. 'Long toward noon, Jim comes mowchin' along with his toppin' axe over his shoulder. "Be you minded for an extra hand at your job?" he says. "Be you minded to turn to?"

Rudyard Kipling - A Diversity of Creatures