There was a third member of the Brunell household whom Morrow had observed frequently seated upon the doorstep, or on one of the lower window sills-a small, scraggly black kitten, with stiff outstanding fur, and an absurdly belligerent attitude whenever a dog chanced to pass through the lane.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
Good Fox shook the long scraggly black hair away from his eyes and told the white men, "We did not mean to harm you.
"The Hohokam Dig"
Theodore Pratt
"Mike," who lived just back of our place, would come in at nights from his "Kerry cow," a scraggly runt that lived on the commons, with his pail so full he had to carry it cautiously lest it spill over.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage