outsmells

Updated: August 12, 2026

"There's nothing like it," he said aloud as though he had consenting listeners, "it outsmells creation." He stopped at another tub of flowers where a humming-bird moth was gathering honey and jabbed his stick sharply at it, taking care that the stick did not reach perilously near. "Get away, sir," he said; "you've had enough, sir. Get away, sir."

James Lane Allen - The Mettle of the Pasture