half-clad-wretches

Updated: August 26, 2026

The wind blows raw and chilly from off the snowy slopes of Ararat next morning, and the shivering, half-clad-wretches shuffle off toward the fields and pastures, with blue noses and unwilling faces, humping their backs and shrinking within themselves and wearing most lugubrious countenances; one naturally falls to wondering what they do in the winter.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 : From San Francisco to Teheran