pickcher

Updated: June 28, 2025

P'raps he didn't want to let you know he couldn't hold his own; but that wasn't his fault, I s'pose. Y'see, he wasn't strong." An old print hanging over the bed attracted his attention, and he regarded it with critical interest for awhile: "We've got a pickcher like that at home. We lived in Jones's Alley wunst in that house over there. How d'yer like livin' in Jones's Alley?"

Henry Lawson - While the Billy Boils