o'-doors

Updated: May 26, 2025

Then I thought I would pump her about the natural history of the place. "What was there in these woods, what kind of animals, any? "Oh, yes, sah, when we first come here to live in dese bottoms de possums and foxes and things were so thick you could hardly go out- o'-doors." A fox had come along one day right where her mother was washing, and they used to catch the chickens "dreadful."

John Burroughs - The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton