shet-up

Updated: May 12, 2025

And all of a suddent he says, the man did, "Looks to me's if you was somethin' that kind yourself, ain't ye?" "Oh, no, no, no!" whispers the shet-up posy. "I wish I was, I wish I was. I'm all right outside, humly and awk'ard, queer's I can be, but I ain't pretty inside, oh! I most know I ain't." "I ain't so sure o' that myself," says the man, "but I can tell in a jiffy."

Annie Trumbull Slosson - Story-Tell Lib