pelfish

Updated: May 21, 2025

But, ordinarily, they were regarded, as a party of mad fellows, more ornamental than useful, and entirely too clannish and factious to be entrusted with power. Meagher himself seemed to be less erratic than his subordinates; for he had married a New York lady, and had learned, by observation, the superiority of the pelfish, plodding native before his own fitful, impracticable race.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War