fence-stakes

Updated: May 4, 2025

Then when the pretty creature was all in beautiful order, her emerald-green back and white breast immaculate, when she had shaken herself out, and darted out and drawn back many times her long bristle-like tongue, she would sometimes hover along before the tips of the fence-stakes, which were like laths, held an inch apart by wires, collecting, I suppose, the tiny spiders which were to be found there.

Olive Thorne Miller - A Bird-Lover in the West