ear-and-tail

Updated: May 27, 2025

When the pigs had been carried shrieking, in the usual unceremonious ear-and-tail fashion into their pens, and Bowler had been led into the "Lamb" yard, the old man looked rather forlorn and desolate as he gazed after Ann, who was making her way with little Gwil down the busy street. "'Twill be hard to bear to-day," he thought. "They are all talking about me; but 'tis not so hard as I deserve."

Allen Raine - Garthowen: A Story of a Welsh Homestead