prec'pice

Updated: May 24, 2025

''S lucky we didn't go no further, he said, as he came in after a few minutes. 'There's a big prec'pice over yender. Dunno how deep 't is. Guess we'd a found out purty soon. He cut some boughs of hemlock, growing near us, and spread them in a little hollow. That done, we covered them with the oilcloth, and sat down comfortably by the fire.

Irving Bacheller - Eben Holden, a tale of the north country