rib-h'ister

Updated: July 13, 2025

After a search, we found a lantern under a heap of bags and harness. It was cracked, but Asa succeeded in lighting it; and about the first object I saw with any distinctness was old Tommy, doubled up behind a tree. "Are you hurt?" Addison called to him. "Wal, I vum, I dunno!" the old man grunted. "Wa'n't that a rib-h'ister!"

C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens - A Busy Year at the Old Squire's