thistle-levelling

Updated: May 10, 2025

To this day it gives me a thrill, or perhaps it would be safer to say the ghost of a vanished thrill, when I remember the relief it was in my case, albeit I was never so tied to a horse, so parasitical, as the gaucho, after one of these great thistle-levelling pampero winds.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - Far Away and Long Ago