proper-spoken

Updated: June 29, 2025

My father and D'ri made the coffin of planed lumber, and lined it with deerskin, and dug the grave on top of a high hill. When all was ready, my father, who had always been much given to profanity, albeit I know he was a kindly and honest man with no irreverence in his heart, called D'ri aside. "D'ri," said he, "ye 've alwus been more proper-spoken than I hev. Say a word o' prayer?"

Irving Bacheller - D'Ri and I