pine-slashed

Updated: January 19, 2026

As the phenomenal team receded, the old cry ran, however, down the stilly street: "Steeple-top! He's got it on! Meshach's loose!" The carriage proceeded out the forest road, and soon entered upon the sandy, pine-slashed region called Hard-scrabble, or Hardship.

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times