scraggy-tail

Updated: June 3, 2025

At the end of the tenth mile he stopped the mare suddenly. "Hold on," he cried, excitedly, "there's that scraggy-tail. I missed him when I come down. See! there he is on that green log. I was feared he'd passed in his chips." I looked and saw a huge gray squirrel with a tail like a rabbit. "That's him. Durn mean on his tail, warn't it? And one paw gone, too.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Under Dog