Being detained bodily and pressed for explanation, he desperately said that he had to go home to tease the cook-which had the Rakehelly air he thought would insure his release, but was not considered plausible.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
Now, Mistuh Tom, said Sandy seriously, I don' min' lettin' you take my money, but I hopes you ain' gwine ter use it fer none er dem Rakehelly gwines-on er yo'n,-gamblin' an' bettin' an' so fo'th.
"The Marrow of Tradition"
Charles W. Chesnutt
"No, no, don't read me that; it's too good for an old Rakehelly tar like me," he persisted in saying.
"Athelstane Ford"
Allen Upward
