pocket-devils

Updated: May 20, 2025

Then the combatants fell out literally. Up from the solid earth between the twisted roots they seemed to come, but that proved the art of one of them in concealing his front-door from the curious, and down the bank of the sea-wall, over and over and over, squeaking the most murderous language, and grappling like pocket-devils tumbled a little jet-black and a little dark-brown beast.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild