ree-strainers

Updated: May 3, 2025

"Waal," drawled Gabby Pete, plaintively, "I stick to hum so much o' the time I never git to talk to nobody nor hear the noos. But seems to me I did hear onct about him. Yes, sir, somebody sez as how Don Fernandez lives in a palace in that wilderness jest like a king of old, with armed ree-strainers or whatever you calls 'em " "Retainers, Pete," said Jack, suppressing a smile.

Gerald Breckenridge - The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border