twelve-'n'-fourteen

Updated: May 21, 2025

Another long pull at the cigarette, and then the triumphant declaration: "She can brew n' she can bake, She can sew n' she can make She's a young thing, and cannot leave her mother." "She ain't s' young!" bawled the sheepherder, who was taking it all very seriously. "Say them numbers over again, onc't. Twelve-'n'-fourteen "

B. M. Bower - The Long Shadow