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Updated: May 23, 2025
There's been a ditcher in his family, and there may have been a duke. But Shiel Crozier Shiel" she flushed as she said the name like that, but a little touch of defiance came into her face too "he is all of one kind. He's not a blend. And he's married to her in there!" "You needn't speak in that tone about her. She's as fine as can be." "She's as fine as a bee," retorted Kitty.
There bain't a hedger or ditcher but has his bit o' dinner put ready for en, and I reckon soldiers have got stummicks much same as other folks." Dick had only half attended to this speech; he had been standing by the door intently gazing up the village street, and shading his eyes with his hand. "Why, I'm blowed!" he exclaimed. "Here's a mate o' mine ridin' this way! Yes, so it be.
The last two were ill-matched; a big broad-shouldered ditcher, and a little slender girl of barely seventeen. The man lumbered off in a wide curve, the girl shot away like a weasel, almost straight ahead, her red bodice like a streak of flame and her short plait straight out ahead. "That's it that's the way!" cried the rest. The girl ran straight ahead at first, Olof hardly gaining on her at all.
Here was prosperity indeed, a flood of astonishing good fortune: that he, but a little week agone, a dirty ditcher so was he pleased to designate his former self a ragged wretch, little better than a tramp, should be now progressing like a monarch, with a mighty bag of gold to enrich his county town.
The soldiers liked the business; for every man so employed received his ten stivers a day additional wages, punctually paid, and felt moreover that every stioke was bringing the work nearer to its conclusion. The Spaniards no longer railed at Maurice as a hedger and ditcher.
What mattered it to the ditcher and yeoman, far from the court, that the queen was said to dance in her nightdress and to swear like a trooper? It was, indeed, largely from these rustic sources that such stories were scattered throughout England. Peasants thought them picturesque.
As his own clothes were prince-like compared to the ditchers, Israel thought that however much his proposition might excite the suspicion of the ditcher, yet self-interest would prevent his communicating the suspicions.
Lanterns may be moving in the cowyards and stables; but elsewhere all is quiet the hedger and ditcher cannot see to strike his blow, the ploughs have ceased to move for some time, the labourer's workshop the field is not lighted by gas as the rooms of cities. The shortness of the winter day is one of the primary reasons why, in accordance with ancient custom, wages are lowered at that time.
In another minute the wave of life is gone; it has swept over and disappeared as swiftly as it came. The wood, the field, and lane seem painfully positively painfully empty. Slowly the hedger and ditcher goes back to his work, where in the shade under the bushes even now the dew lingers. So there are days to be enjoyed out of doors even in much-abused November.
Capabilities there were in me to give battle, in some small degree, against the great Empire of Darkness: does not the very Ditcher and Delver, with his spade, extinguish many a thistle and puddle; and so leave a little Order, where he found the opposite? "How much more, one whose capabilities are spiritual; who has learned, or begun learning, the grand thaumaturgic art of Thought!
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