red-peppers

Updated: May 8, 2025

"They don't appear to want another queen," I said, "for they wont take one that is right under their noses." Corny looked provoked, and Rectus asked me how I knew that. "I tell you," said Corny, "it don't make any difference whether they want her or not, they haven't any right to make a born queen sit on a stone and sell red-peppers. Do you know what Rectus and I have made up our minds to do?"

Frank Richard Stockton - A Jolly Fellowship

I seem still to see the square, home-like central room of the old house, with Mr. Stewart's bed in one corner, covered with a great robe of pieced panther skins. The smoky rafters above were hung with strings of onions, red-peppers, and long ears of Indian corn, the gold of which shone through pale parted husks and glowed in the firelight.

Harold Frederic - In the Valley