ripput

Updated: May 6, 2025

Every tub on its own bottom, says she; 'man and wife did ought to keep theirselves to theirselves, she to the house, and I to the garden. 'So be it, says I, 'and by the same toaken, don't let me catch them "Ns" in my garden again, or I'll spoil their clucking and scratching, says I, 'for I'll twist their dalled necks: ye've got a yard, says I, 'and a roost, and likewise a turnpike, you and your poultry: so bide at home the lot, and don't come a scratching o' me, and with that we had a ripput; and she took one of her pangs; and then I behoved to knock under; and that is allus the way if ye quarrel with woman-folk; they are sworn to get the better of ye by hook or by crook.

Charles Reade - Hard Cash