Thursday, June 21, 2012

A complaint from the Tuckahoe Daughters of Temperance

This from the New York Times, 2/24/1855



Apparently "Parcle" in "Parcle of Wolfs" is actually a misspelling of "Parcel," which my OED tells me is an antiquated word for a pack. The word Passel is of the same origin.

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