fern-jar

Updated: May 16, 2025

And there was a brass fern-jar with claw feet, and rings on the sides that somehow made me think of fetters upon men's wrists. "A little lower to the left. So!" he ordered, and with steady fingers I obeyed. He stood out sharply in the clear oval the "cleverest crook in all America" at work again, absorbed in his task, expert, a mind-force pitting itself against inanimate opposition.

Marie Conway Oemler - Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man