coral-and-bells

Updated: May 29, 2025

Holt philosophically, as they investigated the pendants to the papoose. 'But why this piece of deer-leather, with bits of stag-horn attached? Except as a charm' Here nature answered the ingenious speculation, by the little coppery hand put forth to grasp the debated toy, and champ it in the baby mouth, after the fashion of our own immemorial coral-and-bells.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement