Mulga had won his spurs in an age when the scrub-dasher was still the most important man in the south-western cattle country.

The sprag should still be taken apart for visual inspection of the components. I have seen sprags that still functioned correctly, but when taken apart, the spring cage that holds the sprag elements was completely destroyed.

A thousand editors have screamed in leaded type that it were "worse for the wealthy to hoard than waste.

1999, Mary Taylor Gray, Mary Taylor Young, Herbert Clarke, Watchable Birds of California