undervallers

Updated: June 10, 2025

"'Well, sir, says I, 'when your work is done, an' your kitchen cleaned up, an' your lamp lit, a lord or a duke is jus' tip-top to read about, if the type aint too fine an' the paper mean beside, which it often is in the ten-cent books; but, further than this, I must say, we aint got no use for 'em. At that he kind o' steps back, and looks as if he was goin' to say somethin', but I puts in quick: 'But you mustn't think, my earl, says I, 'that we undervallers you.

Frank Richard Stockton - The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories