After that slumgullion Kenny whipped up yesterday, I'm a perpetual volunteer for the job of chef-strictly in self-defense."
"Border, Breed Nor Birth"
Dallas McCord Reynolds
There, seamed and scarred by hydraulic engines, was the old hillside, over whose denuded surface the grass had begun to spring again in fitful patches; there were the abandoned heaps of tailings already blackened by sun and rain, and worn into mounds like ruins of masonry; there were the waterless ditches, like giant graves, and the pools of slumgullion, now dried into shining, glazed cement.
"Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories"
Bret Harte
Well, Raintree ain't no fool; he allowed the old man wasn't one, either; and he knew that slumgullion wasn't worth no more than mud for any good it would do the garden.
"Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories"
Bret Harte