Sentence:  I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill , and another time we ran across some teamsters they 'd caught , tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over <WSD>little</WSD> fires until their brains was exploded right out o ' their skulls . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent