w'ite-washin

Updated: July 17, 2025

"His mammy got er letter f'm 'im las' week; he 's livin' in de town er Groveland now." "How 's he gittin' on?" "He says he gittin' on monst'us well. He 'low ez how he make five dollars a day w'ite-washin', an' have all he kin do."

Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt - The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays