time-caller

Updated: July 15, 2025

Those notes repeated as by some slave ordering his brother to be lashed or one sympathetic soul in perdition made the time-caller to another's misery floated on the evening light as if the oars of Charon echoed on the Styx, and broken hearts were crossing over.

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times