stanchled

Updated: May 11, 2025

Sez I, "Mebby we shall have a couple of our own stanchled up in our own barn." "You mean tied up," sez he, and I do spoze I did mean that. But now to look up at the great deep overhead, and consider the vastness of space, and consider the smallness of the ropes a-holdin' the balloon down, I said to myself, "Mebby it wuz jest as well not to tackle the job of ridin' out in it that day."

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair