double-chained

Updated: May 8, 2025

He lifted the nasty, sticky little beast and fondled him as usual, while Jill, no worse even more excusable, because less trained suffered all the terrors of his wrath and was double-chained to the post, so as to have no further chance of such ill-doing. This was a day of bad luck for Kellyan. That morning he had fallen and broken his rifle.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac