tartman

Updated: May 7, 2025

But, what boy ever recollected with pleasure the years he spent in close confinement, at an academy near London? unless indeed he should by chance remember the poor scare-crow of an usher whom he tormented; or, the tartman, from whom he caught a cake, to devour it with the cattish appetite of selfishness.

Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman