purp'-stuff

Updated: May 22, 2025

"The hogwash and 'purp'-stuff ladled out from the slop-bucket of Messrs. and Co., of 'Frisco, by some lop-eared Eastern apprentice, and called 'A Compilation of Californian Verse, might be passed over, so far as criticism goes. A club in the hands of any able-bodied citizen of Red Dog, and a steamboat ticket to the Bay, cheerfully contributed from this office, would be all-sufficient.

Bret Harte - The Bell-Ringer of Angel's