peckabys

Updated: May 8, 2025

But to-day he have gone and took that spare bedroom as the Peckabys have wanted to let, since their custom fell off." "He means to make a stay, then?" "It looks like it, sir. Susan Peckaby, she were in here half an hour ago, a-buying new ribbons for a cap, all agog with it. He's a-going to hold forth in their shop, she says, and see how many of the parish he can turn into saints.

Mrs. Henry Wood - Verner's Pride