wagon-needed

Updated: July 14, 2026

Neither of us the previous company of the wagon-needed to inquire their trade; for this could be no mystery to frequenters of brigade-musters, ordinations, cattle-shows, commencements, and other festal meetings in our sober land; and there is a dear friend of mine, who will smile when this page recalls to his memory a chivalrous deed performed by us, in rescuing the show-box of such a couple from a mob of great double- fisted countrymen.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales")