Mr. Pucker was immensely relieved at this news, and at once went to Mr. slowcoach, who, after an examination of twenty minutes, passed him.
"The Worlds Greatest Books Vol. II: Fiction"
Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.
Me cousin Henerietta does that; I only has the breakfast itself to get, an' there's not much trouble in that, on'y I'm such a slowcoach, an' someway-I don't know how it was-my wits went wool-gatherin' this mornin'.
"North, South and Over the Sea"
M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
For Aunt M'riar, though good, was a slowcoach, backward in cross-examination, and Mrs. Prichard's first depositions remained unqualified, for discussion later with Uncle Mo.
"When Ghost Meets Ghost"
William Frend De Morgan