The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 1026
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The Wait-a-bit (_Wacht een beetje_) is so called from the ingenious nature of its spines. There are two together, of which one is straight and the other curved round like a hook. Both are very sharp and strong, so that an incautious traveller is sure to injure himself and his clothes. The straight one runs into his tender flesh, whilst the curved one fixes itself in his clothes.