picket-halters

Updated: May 5, 2025

They'll make meat of you sartain." "Well, I don't care if they do. I'm in government service; and if them picket-halters was gone, slap down goes a dollar apiece. Money's scarce in these diggin's, and I'm going to save all I kin to take home to the old woman and boys."

Henry Inman - The old Santa Fe trail : The Story of a Great Highway