under-stepping

Updated: May 14, 2025

Sometimes and who could blame the surveyor? when the pony was "feeling his oats," he might step a little higher and farther, and in that case the beneficiary of the scrip might get a thousand or two more acres in his survey than the scrip called for. But look at the boundless leagues the state had to spare! However, no one ever had to complain of the pony under-stepping.

O. Henry - Whirligigs