skamps

Updated: May 2, 2025

He examined me closely, and having made, as it were, a mental inventory of my features, dress, &c., exclaimed, "Mine friend, in dese times nobody knows who's which. I say, sar, nobody knows who's what. Fellers land here and eats mine grub, and den shoves off dere poats, and nevar says 'tank you, sar, for mine grub. Since de confederate war all men is skamps, I does fully pelieve.

Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop - Four Months in a Sneak-Box