shent-per-shent

Updated: May 10, 2025

For quits he'd give up half, down, cash; And that, for one who had gone to smash, Was a liberal restitution: His neighbor Shent-per-Shent did sue On a better claim, and put it through, Recovered his suit, but not a sou At the tail of an execution.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860