cropsticks

Updated: May 1, 2025

"'The cropsticks of flamingo bicrastus quack." The doctor frowned, laid his hat on the table, and seating himself took the paper from Cicely Drane. "This is strange," said he. "It does seem to be 'cropsticks of flamingo, but what can that mean?" "That is what I came to ask you," said she. "I have been puzzling over it a good while, and I supposed, of course, you would know what it is."

Frank Richard Stockton - The Girl at Cobhurst