spelling-downs

Updated: May 28, 2025

He spoke of the money he got and of how he had finally saved enough to buy a horse of his own. Tom had talked of many other things on that night, of the spelling-downs at the schoolhouse in town, of huskings and dances held in the barns and of the evening when he went skating on the river and first met his wife. "We took to each other at once," he said softly.

Sherwood Anderson - Poor White