parin'-bee

Updated: May 3, 2025

So I follered him; and he led the way into a beautiful room, kinder round, and red colored, with lots of elegant pictures and lookin'-glasses and books. The President sot before a table covered with books and papers: and, good land! he no need to have been afraid and hung back; he was dressed up slick slick enough for meetin', or a parin'-bee, or any thing.

Marietta Holley - Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician