THANK YOU for the website! I'm thoroughly enjoying my explorations!Hilarious! Just read it…the accent in my head was from “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”, bona fide.
It’s from 1902!
https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/the-ransom-of-red-chief/
“Just at daybreak, I was awakened by a series of awful screams from Bill. They weren't yells, or howls, or shouts, or whoops, or yawps, such as you'd expect from a manly set of vocal organs--they were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars. It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak.”
