wild-eyed-youngsters

Updated: May 25, 2025

And there, twenty feet above the lake, a young kingfisher one of Koskomenos' frowzy-headed, wild-eyed-youngsters was whirling wildly at the end of my line. He had seen the minnow trailing a hundred feet astern and, with more hunger than discretion, had swooped for it promptly. Simmo, feeling the tug but seeing nothing behind him, had struck promptly, and the hook went home.

William J. (William Joseph) Long - Secrets of the Woods