The Gilded Age

Book Excerpt:

“What’s plasterin’?”

“I dono. Hit’s what he calls it. ‘Ole Mam Higgins, she tole me.
She say she wasn’t gwyne to hang out in no sich a dern hole like a hog.
Says it’s mud, or some sich kind o’ nastiness that sticks on n’ covers up
everything. Plarsterin’, Si calls it.”