spanish-needles

Updated: July 25, 2025

Presently he entered, his sleeves rolled to the elbow over his brawny arms, and his shirt and pantaloons covered with the spanish-needles and burrs which would grow, even in so well-tilled fields as Deacon Klegg's. "What's the matter, mother? What's the matter, girls?" he asked anxiously. Mrs. Klegg could only look at him in speechless misery.

John McElroy - Si Klegg, Book 4 : Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign