I tore off the challenge neat as anything, and folded up the blank leaf in its own folds and put it back in the hungwallop, and gummed it up all nice as wax, and nicer, too; and then my scamp come down in his Sunday clothes, and took it up quick and put it in his pocket, and off with him, without any suspicion that he was a-carrying away a blank and a-leaving the challenge in my hands!
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
I could not sleep for a melancholy sound in the air, half whistle, half moan; and when I went into the middle room to look out of the window, I'm gummed ef that bull's-eye lantern wasn't standing on the table with the slide shut.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville
He jes' slipped back by inches and stole away as silent as a hare, whiles I had my eyes gummed on the thick cover where he'd stood.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville