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"I hope he won't turn out to be a coward." His doubts were soon allayed. Curly walked straight to where he stood. His light-blue eyes were blazing. "Now I'm clean," he said meaningly, "maybe you'll talk to me. Think you've got a picnic here, do you? You clodhoppers think you can run over a man because you know he can't get away. All right. Now, what do you think of that?"
First the five toes, though clubbed together, have each a separate hoof, as in the elephant; then the hippopotamus follows with four toes, and the rhinoceros with practically three. These beasts are all clodhoppers, and their feet are hobnailed boots. The more active deer and all cattle keep only two toes for practical purposes, though stumps of two more remain.
"They suspect me, but they can't prove anything, anyway," chuckled the traitor to himself. "Brass, Phin, my boy! Brass! That is bound to win out when the clodhoppers can't prove a blessed thing." As none of the students outside of the squad showed any especial inclination to cut him, Phin felt almost wholly reassured.
First allow an enemy to entrench, and then fight him! See the destruction brought upon the British at Bunker's Hill yet our troops there were only militia; raw, half-armed clodhoppers, and not a mortar, or carronade, not even a swivel only their ducking-guns! What, then, are we to expect from regulars, completely armed, with a choice train of artillery, and covered by a breastwork."
"I heard one of your clodhoppers say the other day, 'The squire is a good gentleman, he often gives me a day's work. Now I should think it was the clodhopper gave the gentleman the day's work, and the gentleman gave him a shilling for it and made five by it." William Fielding scratched his head. This was a new view of things to him, but there seemed to be something in it.
There was talk, too, of hunters who had tracked these monsters to their lairs and overcome them. Early I decided that when I went West, I would become, besides other things, a mighty bear hunter. I planned to discard the ragged overalls and clumsy "clodhoppers" of the farm, as soon as I reached the mountains, for smoke-tanned, Indian-made buckskin suit and moccasins, all beaded and fringed.
Their general quarters were established in that village over there, where the infernal clodhoppers damn their false, Royalist hearts! looked remarkably cross-eyed at three unassuming military men. For the present he should only ask for the name of General D'Hubert's friends. "What friends?" said the astonished General D'Hubert, completely off the track.
"My God!" he exclaimed, "who ever heard of any thing like this before! first allow an enemy to entrench, and then fight him!! See the destruction brought upon the British at Bunker's Hill! and yet our troops there were only militia! raw, half-armed clodhoppers! and not a mortar, nor carronade, nor even a swivel but only their ducking guns!
He railed at Filion Lacasse; he called the suspicious habitants clodhoppers, who didn't know any better which was a tribute to his own superior birth; and at last, carried away by a feverish curiosity, he suggested that Rosalie should go and look through the cracks in the shutters of the tailor-shop and find out what was going on within.
You are too plain a Pulpit for such an elegant Pew. Just look at your big hands and feet. We want a spiritual guide whose fingers taper to a fine point, and one who could wear, if need be, a lady's shoe. Get out, with your great paws and clodhoppers! We want in this church a Pulpit that will talk about heaven, and make no allusion to the other place.
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