whisky-flask-up

Updated: May 6, 2025

After a moment he began: "I don't know how it started. I'd lost a lot of pelts stolen they were, down on the Child o' Sin River. Well, she was hasty and nervous, like as not she always was brisker and more sudden than I am. I I laid my powder-horn and whisky-flask-up there!" He pointed to the little shrine of the Virgin, where now his candles were burning.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

I I laid my powder-horn and whisky-flask-up there!" He pointed to the little shrine of the Virgin, where now his candles were burning. The priest's grave eyes did not change expression at all, but looked out wisely, as though he understood everything before it was told. Bagot continued: "I didn't notice it, but she had put some flowers there.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v2