springiest

Updated: May 7, 2025

We made, too, couches of fir-branches the springiest and most wholesome of beds in lieu of heather or gall, and laid down our weariness as a soldier would relinquish his knapsack, after John Splendid had bandaged my wounded shoulder. In the cave of Eas-a-chosain we lay for more days than I kept count of, I immovable, fevered with my wound, Sir Donald my nurse, and John Splendid my provider.

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn