Just imagine Mr. Bird, with his poor sciatic leg, standing at the head of State Street with a bucket of water in one hand and a little engine in the other, and see him, when the telegraph strikes an alarm, starting off with all his might, hippity, hoppity, almost two miles an hour, for a fire which may be one or five miles away !

The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.

Coordinate term: traineeship

Discussion of racial purity of coonasses, boogerlees, and out-of-state Cajans represented a relative improvement of the prestige of Cajun: after all, descendants of the Acadian exiles in Louisiana could be called names more pejorative […]