stake-burnin's

Updated: June 21, 2025

I know her name's Victory, an' this un here in the book, her name's Mary." "So it is," said Mr. Hobbs, still mopping his forehead; "so it is. An' the newspapers are not sayin' anything about any racks, thumb-screws, or stake-burnin's, but still it doesn't seem as if 't was safe for him over there with those queer folks. Why, they tell me they don't keep the Fourth o' July!"

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy