need-cessity

Updated: August 1, 2026

I know that explanations are always abominable to story readers, as they are to story writers, but as so many of my readers have never had the inestimable privilege of sitting under the gospel as it is ministered in enlightened neighborhoods like Flat Creek, I find myself under the necessity need-cessity the Rev. Mr. Bosaw would call it of rising to explain.

Edward Eggleston - The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana