pestigeous

Updated: March 1, 2025

The little boys still sat downstairs under their parents' watchful eyes. "No child under 10 alowed to go up Gailary." In Plainfield, Connecticut, the "pestigeous" boys managed to invent a new form of annoyance, they "damnified the glass;" and a church regulation had to be passed to prevent, or rather to try to prevent them from "opening the windows or in any way damnifying the glass."

Alice Morse Earle - Sabbath in Puritan New England