Slavery was an accepted part of antebellum plantation life.

often drunk, always muddled

I didn't wear my “Trailer Park Trash” T-shirt that day.

“You'll be able now to give it as your considered opinion that [Wilbert Cream] is as loony as a coot, Sir Roderick.” A pause ensued during which [the psychiatrist] appeared to be weighing this, possibly thinking back to coots he had met in the course of his professional career and trying to estimate their dippiness as compared with that of W. Cream.