wooden-fingered

Updated: May 27, 2025

"'To think, he says, more in sorrow than in anger, 'to think that I should live to see this day! To think that me, who helped Canady Bill sell the first gold brick that ever was molded in this country, should in my declining years have a couple of wooden-fingered amatoors come along and try to slip me the oldest graft in the known world! It is too much, he says, 'it is too much too much.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Sundry Accounts