ne-er-do-well

Updated: June 19, 2025

A drunken laugh answered him, while the sober scoundrel a lank, hairy ne-er-do-well, with a tendency to epilepsy, whose name he remembered to have heard pushed him roughly to the roadside. "You git out of this here mess, parson. We're goin' to teach this damn nigger a lesson, and I reckon when he's learned it in hell, he won't turn his grin on a white woman again in a jiffy."

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow - Virginia