1897 F.H. Carruth Voyage of the Rattletrap 67: I reckon he’d have kicked it all to flinders inside of a week.at all to pieces, adv.
1897 F.H. Carruth Voyage of the Rattletrap 142: He tossed out a quarter and said, ‘Two bits,’ and a dime and said, ‘Short bit—thank you.’.at short bit (n.) under bit, n.1
1897 F.H. Carruth Voyage of the Rattletrap 142: He tossed out a quarter and said, ‘Two bits,’ and a dime and said, ‘Short bit — thank you.’.at two bits, n.
1897 F.H. Carruth Voyage of the Rattletrap 145: That was simply his humorous way of saying that all coins under a dime are fit only for chicken-feed.at chickenfeed, n.
1897 F.H. Carruth Voyage of the Rattletrap 4: The Rattletrap was—namely, a ‘prairie schooner’.at rattletrap, n.
1897 F.H. Carruth Voyage of the Rattletrap 206: If it ain’t them three pesky scallawags back safe and sound!at scallywag, n.
1897 F.H. Carruth Voyage of the Rattletrap 131: No wonder old skeesicks went off to town soon as he got the money.at skeezicks, n.
1897 F.H. Carruth Voyage of the Rattletrap 129: Waal, now stranger, I jess reckon I have got some co’n to sell.at stranger, n.