string-latch

Updated: June 19, 2025

There was a slight noise outside, as of some one feeling for a latch, but uncle Nathan, who was just lifting his head from a doze, took it for a knock, and called out with sleepy good nature. "Come in come in." "Gracious me, ain't I trying to come in?" called a voice from the porch. "Why on airth didn't you keep to the old string-latch?

Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens - The Old Homestead