tree-shrub

Updated: May 9, 2025

The troopers who had reduced their clothing to a minimum, for their sole vestment consisted of a forage-cap and cartridge-belt wound along as noiselessly as Lizzie; but we poor whites with our flannel shirts and other complicated paraphernalia that custom would not permit us to dispense with in the matter-of-fact way they were laid aside by our sable allies were getting into continual trouble; now hitched up helplessly by a lawyer vine, whose sharp prickles, like inverted fish-hooks, rent the skin; now crawling unsuspiciously against a tree-ants' nest, an indiscretion that the fierce little insects visited with immediate and most painful punishment; or else, becoming aware, by unmistakable symptoms, that we were trying to force a passage through a stinging tree-shrub.

Charles Henry Eden - Australian Search Party