skreeked

Updated: May 4, 2025

There was three or four more women looking on, and I mind all on us skreeked a bit, and our hands went up in the air as if one string had pulled the lot; and says Bet Morgan, the carter's wife, 'Lord sake, gie me a bucket somebody, and let me milk her! 'Nay, but thou shalt milk me, said I, and a pint of fourpenny I gave her, then and there, for complimenting of my cow.

Charles Reade - A Perilous Secret