of-course-ities

Updated: June 25, 2025

He was not so big, this boy who had struck him, not so big. Bob was not afraid. But that a promise is a thing to be kept inviolate he had learned, oh, years ago, from Papa Jack, along with all the other of-course-ities of life, like telling the truth, keeping your troubles to yourself, and not being a cry-baby or a telltale. And a promise to mother well, nothing could be more sacred.

Various - McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908