seckon

Updated: May 8, 2025

Nevertheless, he finally succeeded in reaching the raft; and as they hauled him aboard he gasped, with thankfulness, "Dat de seckon time dish yer nigger ebber bin in one ob dem ar cooners, an' him hope he be good an' daid befo' him ebber sperimentin' wif um agen!" Quorum had come from the great house, where the Cupid was the sole craft to be had.

Kirk Munroe - Raftmates : A Story of the Great River