thissels

Updated: May 10, 2025

And then for the first time it dawned upon him that there were novel disproportions in the world. "Lord sakes," he cried, sitting up and looking animated for the first time, "but them's mortal great thissels growing out there on the bank by that broom. If so be they be thissels? Or 'ave I been forgetting?"

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth