thimbleriggery

Updated: May 20, 2025

Pothunter, who never drank anything but black and white highballs, being in mourning for her husband, who oh, I've forgotten what he did died, like as not. Spaghetti-weary reader, wouldst take one penny-in-the-slot peep into the fair land of Bohemia? Then look; and when you think you have seen it you have not. And it is neither thimbleriggery nor astigmatism.

O. Henry - The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million