sun-veneered

Updated: June 10, 2025

"You see the cactus turns its leaves into water vats with spikes to keep intruders off; and the greasewood stops evaporation by a varnish of gum. I'm sun-veneered all right. I don't sweat all my moisture out " "Better varnish me, then, before ye take me out again."

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - The Freebooters of the Wilderness