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Updated: June 8, 2025
That man West belongs with the regulars. He's too good for the scrub team. Mark my words, when we go up against Clifford he'll be doing duty with Columbia's eleven!" "Bah!" sneered Tony Gilpin. "He's still only a greeny; never saw a football till he came here last year. Bones Shadduck taught him all he knows about the game.
Ah! that charming Frascati, on its greeny knoll at the foot of the wooded Tusculan heights, with its famous terrace whence one enjoys the finest view in the world, its old patrician villas with proud and elegant Renascence facades and magnificent parks, which, planted with cypress, pine, and ilex, are for ever green!
"Don't stand there, Greeny, or the cows'll eat you up!" called Riley, as he came round again to the base nearest to the school-house. Why the boys should have been amused at this speech, the new scholar could not tell the joke was neither new nor witty only impudent and coarse. But the little boys about the door giggled.
All these and many other delights he never knows; but one thing he does know, and knows it early, and that is how much smarter, better dressed and better off in every way he is than the poor, despised greeny of a country boy!
He spoke slowly, softly, and with a slightly rustic twang, that was very tempting to a certain class of sharps to take him up for a "luberly greeny." The man who did so usually repented his error in sack-cloth and ashes. Hill first came into prominence as the victor in the most stubbornly contested fight in the prison history of Belle Isle.
Then I became angry with him and his attendants and his whole blessed theatre. "My hat," I said bitingly, "has been stolen from me while I slept." You must have seen me wearing it in the dear old days. Greeny brown it was in colour; but it wasn't the colour that drew your eyes to it no, nor yet the shape, nor the angle at which it sat. It was just the essential rightness of it.
And there were big pieces of the Statehouse lying around in the tall weeds. And such greeny green grass just everywhere. And, and, oh, the biggest trees. So many, all close together. Papa said it was like Ohio. Oh, so big. I never knew trees could grow so big, nor so many of them all together." Little Thaine spread his short arms to show how wondrous large these trees were.
Now as we went slowly thus, I pointed out caves a-plenty and very proper to our purpose, but she would have none of them and was forever lifting her eyes to the cliffs and tree-clad, greeny slopes beyond. "Let us seek above," says she, "where there be trees and mayhap flowers, for, Martin, I do love trees." "Nay but," says I, "none save a bird or a goat may climb yonder."
And from this I got to considering how we might cross this stream, supposing we should explore the island. But reaching the denser woods I lost my way, for here nought was to see but the greeny gloom of tangled thickets and dense-growing boskages where I must needs cut a path, yet even so I troubled myself with divers bunches of grapes that my companion might prove my discovery.
"Country!" shouted a little ragged boy, who dodged across the street at that moment. "Just so, my beauty!" said Bobby, a little nettled at this imputation of verdancy. "What a greeny!" shouted the little vagabond from the other side of the street. "No matter, rag-tag! We'll settle that matter some other time."
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