wagon-boys

Updated: May 9, 2025

It is no wonder that the few shutters hang by the eye-lids, and that even the wagon-boys who vend antediluvian vegetables from castaway wagons drawn by twenty-shilling horse-frames, hurry through without any hope in the yells intended to attract custom.

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862