supply-purchasing

Updated: August 13, 2026

And the next morning, as Martha was walking up the lane from the village, where she had been on a supply-purchasing excursion, she heard heavy footsteps and, turning, saw her neighbor tramping toward her, his massive figure rolling, as it always did when in motion, from side to side like a ship in a seaway. "Why, hello, Jethro!" she exclaimed. Captain Jethro merely nodded.

Joseph Crosby Lincoln - Galusha the Magnificent