pugatory

Updated: May 29, 2025

We wuz goin' up a tremengous mountain, and he sez, "Set down or you will git your name in the death notices." Whether he laid out to kill her I don't know, for she set down. And jest then somebody yells, "Here we go down to the bottomless pit." I sez to the F. F., "I can't believe it! 'Tain't so! It must be Pugatory!" But there wuz the sign, "Hell." "Oh!"

Marietta Holley - Samantha at Coney Island: and a Thousand Other Islands