penny-flute

Updated: May 5, 2025

Nor did it seem to distress him deeply when the grave and learned lords of the highest tribunal of the commonwealth saw fit, as they sometimes did, to quarrel with a decision of his which, according to their lights, ran counter to the authorities and the traditions revered by these august gentlemen. "Ah-hah!" he would say in his high penny-flute voice when such a thing happened.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Sundry Accounts