wooden-leg-acy

Updated: May 7, 2025

"A'ter all, it's much better being snug here in this little cabin than shivering with fear and cold under old Abershaw's gallows; and Tom, you scamp, if ever you go gunning again I'll disinherit you." "What have you got to leave, father, except your wooden legs?" replied Tom. "Your's would be but a wooden-leg-acy." "How do you know but what I can `post the coal?"

Frederick Marryat - Jacob Faithful