water-yoke

Updated: September 18, 2025

These scenes, as well as the regular rounds of the chore-boy Jim with his water-yoke upon his shoulders, carrying either water for the home or slop for the pigs, were sights that were common and in many cases interesting to Edwin. But from them he could learn practically nothing of the things that he would need before he could become a useful man in the world.

Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) Byrum - The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher