muck-hunting

Updated: May 25, 2025

Let me go home and pray for you!" There was an awkward silence among the men, till some fellow said, "She'm gone mad after that doctor, I think, with his muck-hunting notions." And Grace went home, to await the hour of afternoon school. "What a face!" said Mellot. "Is it not? Come and see her in her school, when the children go in at two o'clock. Ah! there are Scoutbush and St. Père."

Charles Kingsley - Two Years Ago, Volume II.