semi-fright

Updated: June 3, 2025

As I looked at them ponderingly, a frog far in the back of the cave gave a discordant, echoing croak, which started the sulky and suspicious black boy who attended me into an abrupt exclamation of semi-fright; while a scrub fowl, scratching for its living overhead, dislodged a chip of granite which went clicking down the rocks.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber