rag-or-anything-else-gatherer

Updated: May 8, 2025

Away the cavalcade went, and in less than five minutes the late bustling village resumed its wonted quiet; the old man on sticks, two crones gossiping at a door, a rag-or-anything-else-gatherer going about with a donkey, and a parcel of dirty children tumbling about on the green, being all that remained on the scene. All the able-bodied men had followed the hounds.

Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour