trick-bone

Updated: April 30, 2025

Pastergood, I wanted mine my own and John's! Oh, I reckon it was idolatry the way I felt in my heart; I thought, to have a little trick-bone o' my bone, flesh o' my flesh look up at me with John's eyes " A sob choked her utterance, and never again was it resumed. In the years that followed, the pair already come to be called Pap Overholt and Aunt Cornely well fulfilled the old doctor's prophecy.

- Southern Lights and Shadows