grouse-like

Updated: June 13, 2025

There came a day when Ab, impatient after his searching and waiting, but yet resolute, had killed a capercailzie the great grouse-like bird of the time, the descendants of which live to-day in northern forests and had built a fire and feasted, and then, instinctively careful, had climbed to the first broad, low branch of an enormous tree and there adjusted himself to sleep the sleep of one who has eaten heartily.

Stanley Waterloo - The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man