rust-eaten

Updated: May 25, 2025

There were stuffed birds on broken perches; and dried lizards, and eels, and little alligators, and old skulls with their crowns sawed off, and ten thousand odd scraps of writing-paper strewn with crumbs of lonely lunches, and interspersed with long-lost spatulas and rust-eaten lancets. All New Orleans, at least all Creole New Orleans, knew, and yet did not know, the dear little Doctor.

George Washington Cable - Old Creole Days