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Updated: June 19, 2025
Who made you a prophet, you scurvy, hang-in-the-wind, croaking, white-livered son of a corby-crow?" "Heaven help us, Admiral Hawkins, who has put fire to your culverins in this fashion?" said Lord Howard. "Who? my lord! Croakers! my lord!
Why have faith any longer in a government that was bankrupt whose promises to pay originated the scoffing proverb, "as worthless as a Confederate note!" Meat and drink was the religion of the croakers in those days. Money was their real divinity. Without meat and drink, and with worthless money, the Confederacy, in their eyes, was not the side to adhere to. It was unfortunate down with it!
"I told Holster, I told all those croakers I'd do it, and by thunder I will do it, with three days' margin, too! I'll get the last shipment off on the twenty-eighth of January. Why, even George Chippering was afraid I couldn't handle it. If the old man was alive he wouldn't have had cold feet."
As if the decadence were not already in progress, and they, the croakers, responsible for it!
It is possible that she may yet live to ride out many a wild Atlantic storm, and perchance become the first of a race of ponderous giants who shall yet walk the deep, to the utter confusion of timid croakers, and to the immense advantage of the world. "Many men, many minds," runs the proverb. "Many nations, many ships," is almost equally true.
"I told Holster, I told all those croakers I'd do it, and by thunder I will do it, with three days' margin, too! I'll get the last shipment off on the twenty-eighth of January. Why, even George Chippering was afraid I couldn't handle it. If the old man was alive he wouldn't have had cold feet."
Even if they are not doing a great deal, they should at least say, even in the dullest of times, that business might be a 'lot worse. It's these croakers on the road who really make business dull when there is every reason for it to be good. I never kick and I don't think any up-to-date man will.
"I didn't know there was so much in common between you and my surly-jowled groom. He gets his pleasure out of croaking. 'Wait, wait, you'll see you'll see! Death, death, death every man must die! The devil has you by the hair death death death! Bah! I'm heartily sick of croakers. I suppose, like my grunting groom, you'll say about the Passion Play, 'No good will come of it wait wait wait! Bah!"
I incline to the opinion that they are performing together, that they know the tune, and each carries his part, self- selected, in free meeting, and therefore never discordant. The hour rule of Congress might be useful, though far less needed among the frogs than among the profane croakers of the fens at Washington."
The town had not been wanting in croakers at the outset of the football season, who had predicted that Dick Prescott and his chums would "drag down" the football team and its fine traditions from past years. But the eleven, mainly under Dick and under Dave's captaincy in two fierce gridiron battles, had gone right along winning games.
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