"Breachy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he said honestly, "but I've got to go over to Long Pastur' an' do that fencin', or I can't put the cattle in there before we turn 'em into the shack. You know that fence was all done up in the spring, but that cussed breachy cow o' Tolman's hooked it down; an' if I wait for him to do it—well, you know what ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown
... smile, And would, no doubt, have been well satisfied To have the liquor-jug still by their side. This job completed, Spring work next came on, And, truly, there was plenty to be done! The man from whom they bought their "Indian lease" Had made brush fences, and there was no peace From "breachy" cattle, breaking through with ease, To eat the crops as often as they please! To cut down trees, and split them into rails For laying fence, is work which seldom fails The new Bush farmer, who must ever be Upon the move, and used to industry. Such was their ...
— The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse - Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects • Thomas Cowherd |
