The sensory details in this excerpt help the reader
understand
A poor substitute for food was this hide, just as it had
been stripped from the starved horses of the cattlemen
six months back. In its frozen state it was more like strips of galvanized iron, and when a dog wrestled it into his stomach it thawed into thin and innutritious leathery
strings and into a mass of short hair, irritating and
indigestible.
