takit

Updated: May 15, 2025

Whereupon the turnkey lad takit it out fra his hand, saying that the prisoner, being a condemned man, maunna receive ony faulded paper that hadna passit under the observation of the governor, because sic faulded packets might contain strychnine or other subtle poison.

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - Self-Raised : Or, From the Depths