flea-tormented

Updated: May 22, 2025

At this time it became the Mecca of two score or more joyous cowboys from the neighboring ranches, who livened things as those knights of the saddle could. In the scant but heavy shadow of Cowan's saloon sat a picturesque figure from whom came guttural, resonant rumblings which mingled in a spirit of loneliness with the fretful sighs of a flea-tormented dog.

Clarence Edward Mulford - Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up