It is equally easy and vastly more efficacious to ply judicious religious instruction than to ply the cowskin or the paddle!
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
And that old cowskin bag is not Sir George's.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman
"Her home is in the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge, along the valley of the cowskin,-a most delightful old Southern mansion.
"My Lady of the North"
Randall Parrish