Pea-time, the last of

The melancholy end of things.

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1834. He [our old parson] whines it out to us like an old woman in the last of pea-time.—Caruthers, ‘The Kentuckian in New-York,’ i. 190.

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1850. It war the last of pea-time with me, sure, if I didn’t rise ’fore bar did.—H. C. Lewis (‘Madison Tensas’), ‘Odd Leaves,’ p. 174 (Phila.).

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1861.

	Ther’ ’s ollers chaps a-hangin’ roun’ thet can’t see peatime ’s past,
	Mis’ble as roosters in a rain, heads down an’ tails half-mast.
	Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ Second S., No. 1.

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