puspire

Updated: February 2, 2025

I don't t'ink he'll be hard on de wittles, an' he's so t'in dat he won't puspire much when he works in de sun in summer. Do buy him, massa." But "massa" would not buy him, and looked hard for some time at our hero. "I see how it am," said the negro, growing sulky. "You set your heart on dat useless ijit. Do come away, massa, it 'ud break my heart to lib wid sich a feller."

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine Story