o'land

Updated: September 3, 2025

Christopher got turned out of the Hall jest befo' his pa died, an' was shuffled into the house of the overseer, whar Bill Fletcher used to live himself, the darkies all bought bits o'land here an' thar an' settled down to do some farmin' on a free scale. Stuck up, suh!

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow - The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields