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And I want you to back me up." "I'll do nothing of the sort," cried Grant. "How can you ask such a thing of ME?" "Yes, you must go with me to-day." "I've got an engagement garden-party at the British Embassy." "Going there, are you? ... Um! ... Well, we'll see." The breakfast came and Craig ate like a ditch-digger his own breakfast and most of Grant's.
Not what is the use of Greek, of any culture in art or literature, but what is the good to me of your knowing Greek, is the latest question of the ditch-digger to the scholar what better off am I for your learning? And the question, in view of the interdependence of all members of society, is one that cannot be put away as idle.
It is no wonder that, between the labor of collecting food and following up the family to administer it, the mother becomes faded and draggled, and the father abandons his music, and goes about near the ground, grubbing like any ditch-digger. The young oriole, however, does not lack intelligence.
There is nothing like a good definite plan, not cast-iron, you know, but flexible and modified by circumstances as you go along, yet so clear and defined as to give you something to aim at. Confound it, that's what's the matter with our military authorities. If McClellan is a ditch-digger let them put a general in command; or, if he is a general, give him what he wants and let him alone.
"You'd be the hungriest wolf of the lot if you'd 'a' been picking and shovelling frozen ground all day." "I didn't 'list to be a ditch-digger!" said Zeke. "I thought I was going to be a soldier." "And you turned out a cook!" quietly remarked Zeb Jarvis. "Well, my hero of the smashed shovel, what do you expect to be Old Put's successor?
Priests, doctors, lawyers, merchants, appear to be born with their particular mental attitude and likewise the clerk, the ditch-digger, the janitor. They have their codes, their guilds and their class feelings. And while they may be spiritually closely related, they are physically far apart.
The materials taken from it had been thrown up along the brink, but not on one side only, as the human ditch-digger does it. The beavers had thrown it out on both sides. The ditch was of some age, however, so the wild grasses and weeds had completely covered the two parallel ridges and now leaned low over the water, partly hiding it.
Not what is the use of Greek, of any culture in art or literature, but what is the good to me of your knowing Greek, is the latest question of the ditch-digger to the scholar what better off am I for your learning? And the question, in view of the interdependence of all members of society, is one that cannot be put away as idle.
"That's just your father's way," exclaimed Mrs. Emery, who had not her daughter's fondness for the Judge's tricks of speech. "He lives as no Dago ditch-digger with a particle of get-up-and-get in him would be willing to," said Judge Emery finally. Lydia turned to her mother. "Why, it's nothing that would interest you in the least, dear," said the matron, taking in admiringly Lydia's French dress.
Followed the usual commonplaces of introduction, which Farrel presently interrupted. "Well, you confounded old ditch-digger! How about you?" "Still making little rocks out of big ones, son. Say, Mr. Parker, how do we stack up on this contract, now that Little Boy Blue is back on the Palomar, blowing his horn?" Parker strove gallantly to work up a cheerful grin.
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