sooner-die-than-work

Updated: May 15, 2025

'Cause some poor old Sooner-die-than-work warms his bones by a bit of fire that wouldn't scare a chimbly swaller out of its nest! Don't you s'pose if there'd been any fire there to speak of, I'd 'a' seen it? What am I here for?

Mary Hallock Foote - The Desert and the Sown