out-mother

Updated: May 1, 2025

I would out-mother mother, for she only saw to the making of the sacks: I would make them myself, every one of them, on my sewing-machine. If I couldn't make cotton-sacks on it, what was the use of having it? Charlie had informed me that he would send me down seven or eight women from the quarters to make the sacks.

- Not Pretty, but Precious