wared-out

Updated: May 9, 2025

"Who's he?" and Muggins looked up quickly. "I never hearn tell of him afore, or, yes I has. Thar's an old wared-out book in Mas'r Hugh's chest, what he reads in every night, and oncet when I axes him what was it, he say, 'It's a Bible, Mug. Dat's what he calls me for short; Mug!" "Well," Alice said, "be a good girl, Muggins. God will love you if you do. Do you ever pray?"

Mary Jane Holmes - Bad Hugh