shutter-board

Updated: May 3, 2025

Then she rose, and having looked to see that the shutter-board was fast in the little window-place and the curtain that she had made of sacking drawn over it, returned and whispered: "Hans here has heard a horrible tale, Allan. Tell it to the baas, Hans."

Henry Rider Haggard - Marie : An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain