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After a full year of this penance with the budget-husband, she is allowed to exchange it for a living one, if she can find him.
The First White Man of the West Flint, Timothy, 1780-1840 1856
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The only comfort she is permitted in this desolate state is, that her budgetted husband is permitted, when drams are passing, to be considered as a living one, and she is allowed to cheer her depressed spirits with a double dram, that of her budget-husband and her own.
The First White Man of the West Flint, Timothy, 1780-1840 1856
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(noun) - (1) A bundle of clothes representing a deceased American Indian husband; from budget, a pouch or bag.
--William Craigie's Dictionary of American English, 1940
(2) The widow's budgetted husband is permitted, when the drams are passing, to be considered as a living one . . . She is permitted to cheer her depressed spirits with a double dram - that of her budget-husband and her own. After a full year of this penance with the budget-husband, she is allowed to exchange it for a living one.
--Timothy Flint's Memoirs of Daniel Boone, 1833
January 14, 2018