No matter how much bug spray I lather all over me, I always come back from a night in the woods looking worse than Grandma Blocko's favorite pincushion.
When you put Gastonia against Utahraptor, Utahraptor is much taller, but that's of no value when the little guy you're attacking has pincushions sticking out of his back.
Well, it started in the late 1800s, when a German woman named Margarete Steiff invented the very first known stuffed animal, an adorable little elephant that was meant to be a pincushion.
It was a square pincushion, made of not quite clean red flannel, and black pins had been stuck carefully into it to form the words, " Menny hapy returns" .
The other squirrels hunted up and down the nut bushes; but Nutkin gathered robin's pincushions off a briar bush, and stuck them full of pine-needle pins.
From under her pincushion she took the library key, and laid it in full view; then she felt at the back of a drawer for the blue brooch that Harney had given her.