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Updated: May 29, 2025
"I wonder how little Jenny's going on," said our idle friend to himself, as he drew near Bentley. "I might do worse than take little Jenny. I only hope she hasn't taken up with that clod-hopper Fenton while I've been away, for want of a better. I almost think I'll have her. Dolly Campion's like to have more money, 'tis true; but it isn't so much more, and she's got an ugly temper with it.
There was nothing of the clod-hopper about him albeit he followed the plough. He was obviously a son of the soil, and he would wrest his living therefrom, but he would do it with brain as well as hands. He had a wide forehead above his somewhat sombre eyes. "I am very sorry," she said again. "I am sorry for you," he said. "Wouldn't it be as well to get out of this rain?
My father had written Uncle Beck to see that this program was inaugurated. "I won't become a clod-hopper," I exclaimed, seeing the dreary, endless monotony of such a life. "But it will do you good. It will be a fine experience for you." "If it's such a fine experience why don't you go and do it?" "I won't stand any nonsense." "I'd rather die.... I'm going to die anyhow."
The receiver did not wait for them to return. "One can't accomplish anything with a clod-hopper like that," he said. "I But in the end if you don't come around and pay us up regularly, we will " He felt for the legal documents in his pocket, realized by their crackling that they were still there, and left the yard.
What brings him here among the wicked, and how can the possessor of the beauteous Sophia be a moment from her charms?" "Take not her name," cries my clod-hopper, "into thy perjured mouth. 'Tis herself sends me here to avenge the best, the most injured . . . " Here he fell a-blubbering! Oh, Belford, the virtue of this world is a great discourager of repentance. "If Mr.
"The clod-hopper, Buckeye farmer," Jim added affectionately, and they drank to Asher's health. "Lord bless you, Aydelot. You said the money was in the soil, not on top of it. I remember you looked like a prophet when you said it," Cyrus Bennington declared. "But I was wild to get rich quick and let my soil go.
I like him, and I always shall. He's such a gentleman, and always so soft-spoken. But I believe you like that clod-hopper Tom Fenton, ever so much better. I can't abide him." "There's a deal more of the feather than the stone about Robin Featherstone, lass. If he be a stone, he's a rolling one. Hasn't he been in three places since he came here?"
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