rum-go

Updated: May 17, 2025

I just turns, like this 'ere, my head over me shoulder, quite confidential, and I says, 'Good Lord, I thank yer. I'm no hand at tracts and Bible-readin's, but I'm not such a blamed fool, Mistress Marie, as to think that this 'ere rum-go of a world made itself. No, not quite. So I just put in a word, quiet-like, to the Creator." Marie was setting before him such luxuries as she could command.

Henry Seton Merriman - With Edged Tools