between-blankets

Updated: May 14, 2025

Infinitely childish, often admirably valiant, often touchingly kind; sitting down to debate of right or wrong and the attributes of the deity; rising up to battle for an egg or die for an idea! "And all to what end?" he demanded, hotly, throwing down the paper, "this disease of the agglutinated dust?" Corliss yawned in reply. He had been on trail all day and was yearning for between-blankets.

Jack London - A Daughter of the Snows