t'down

Updated: May 9, 2025

They got together in Hanz Toodleburg's veranda, drank their beer, and smoked their pipes, and wished the devil might get the new preacher, "what comes t'down to raise t'tevil mit de peoples, and raises t'tevil mit he self." The stranger, of whom mention has been made, was more seriously troubled.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - The Von Toodleburgs: Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family