night-raiders

Updated: May 17, 2025

They have been left to their own devices long enough." Caleb had recovered his good-natured view of the whole affair; he was given to grinning those days at her flutterings. On more than one occasion he told her, none too flatteringly, that she made him think of an officious hen with a brood which a high rate of mortality and prowling night-raiders had left bereft of all save two of her hatch.

Larry Evans - Then I'll Come Back to You