quick-slapping

Updated: May 16, 2025

They are slow-gaited creatures, easily caught by dogs, but with their needle spines, and the sharp, quick-slapping action of their tails, by means of which they can thrust, insert, inject which is the better word? a score or more of these spines into a dog's face, they are antagonists whose prowess cannot be ignored.

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