wire-mended

Updated: June 15, 2025

The horse was a pudgy bay that set his feet stolidly down in the trail, and dragged his toes through it as though he delighted in kicking up all the dust he could. By that trick he had puzzled Helen May a little, just at first, though he had not been able to simulate the passing of four horses. The man held the lines so loosely that they sagged under the wire-mended traces of sunburned leather.

B. M. Bower - Starr, of the Desert