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His very best talents may have never been discovered by himself or others. It is well known to those who study children that a boy's earliest ambitions are to do something he thinks spectacular and romantic. Boys long to be cab drivers, locomotive engineers, policemen, cowboys, soldiers and aviators. A little nephew of ours said he wanted to be a ditch-digger.
Do you tell me that this party is going to be turned upside down by a kid-glove aristocrat who has hardly stirred out of his office during this campaign?" "He has had a chap to do his stirring for him," stated one of the group. "A hobo, scum of the rough-scruff, hailing from nowhere! Shown up in our newspapers as a ditch-digger a fly-by-night a nobody!
He was proud of his mustache that gave him a certain likeness to the German emperor, and when he sat down, he took care to show his hands, by placing them prominently on his knees, in order that everyone might appreciate their vigorous hugeness, the prominent veins, and the strong fingers, all this with the naïve satisfaction of a ditch-digger.
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.
Fatigue, as I've often noticed, is more mental than physical with most of us. Your ditch-digger is tired in his back and arms, but the ordinary person is merely tired because his mind tells him he is." "You are never too tired to rouse yourself for one patient more," was Ellen's answer to this. "The last one seems to cure you of the one before." Burns's hearty laugh shook them both.
As Zeke says, I'm a wolf sure enough; but as soon's the beast's hunger is satisfied, I'll rub that leg of yours till you'll want to dance a jig;" and with the ladle wrung from Stokes's reluctant hand, he began stirring the seething contents of the kettle. Then little Hi Woodbridge piped in his shrill voice, "Another cheer for our assistant cook and ditch-digger!
He is a man of the world, with schemes of conquest filling his brain and a love of dominion ruling his heart. He is no longer a ditch-digger and a ploughman, but the proud master of councils or the cultured professor of the university.
It was just after noon that the Woggle-Bug hired as a ditch-digger in order to win his heart's desire; so at noon on the second day he quit work, and having received eight silver dollars he put on his coat and rushed away to the store that he might purchase his intended bride. But, alas for the uncertainty of all our hopes!
Blood is drawn from the guts to the brain. Though the picture be the veriest mess, the light and movement cause the beholder to do a little reptilian thinking. After a day's work a street-sweeper enters the place, heavy as King Log. A ditch-digger goes in, sick and surly. It is the state of the body when many men drink themselves into insensibility.
"I'd already wired to Frisco and disposed o' my ditch-digger holdin's for over eight thousan'; I got over a thousan' left, five hundred paid on an automobile that's now asleep back o' this office, and a toehold on Paloma Rancho, twelve thousan' acres o' perfectly beautiful sand. "And now that you folks have dumped a cargo o' freight here marked D., S. & T., No. 1, I know we win.
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