hoof-hook

Updated: May 17, 2025

He had in his mind's eye a marvel stag-horn handle, four blades, saw, awl, file, hoof-hook, corkscrew! Such a knife as that, he felt, would console any boy for being arrested. "Most likely 't will end right there," he said to himself. "I guess I'd better go to Farley's," he thought, as he walked along. "Farley owes money to the bank. He won't dare to stick it on like the rest."

Charles Miner Thompson - The Calico Cat