would-be-climbing-a-coconut-tree

Updated: May 13, 2025

Now, I shan't tell you anything at all.... There, don't pretend to be sorry, for you know... oh, Harvey dear, I must tell you." "Tell me, dearest." "That's a good boy, a good would-be-climbing-a-coconut-tree youth, who wanted to show off before poor Atkins who told me just now that you were 'the whitest man in the South Seas. He did really."

Louis Becke - Tessa: 1901