pipe-ash

Updated: June 6, 2025

Now there's that boy there, when we were first married if he only sneezed in the night I boxed his ears; now if he lets his pipe-ash come on my milk-cloths I don't think of laying a finger on him. There's nothing like being married," said Tant Sannie, as she puffed toward the door.

Olive Schreiner - The Story of an African Farm, a novel