vingegar

Updated: May 9, 2025

Long ago, in my own childhood days, our "old Virginy" cook used to say to me: "La, chile, dey's a heap sight mo' flies ketched wid 'lasses dan vingegar," and I have come to the conclusion that she had truth on her side. The girls were by no means saints.

Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson - Caps and Capers: A Story of Boarding-School Life