scesaplana

Updated: July 11, 2025

Then she went on bitterly: "It would have been better if father had taken me up to the lake on Scesaplana when I was a baby and drowned me there as he drowned the puppies in the wash-tub." Christina looked shocked; there was a frown on her heavy face, which was usually as expressionless as if it had been carved in wood. "Fie!" she said.

Various - The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911