orphan-child

Updated: May 20, 2025

He will steal when he is hungry, lie to save his skin, curse most terribly on trifling provocation, and spend, to his last sou markee, his hard-won wage on adulterated drink. "He's a devil an' a ostrich an' a orphan-child in one."

Karl Stephen Herrman - From Yauco to Las Marias : A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of Brig. General Schwan