planted-and-not-to-be-up-rooted

Updated: September 6, 2025

They'll take anything that's given 'em and pay double." Farmers with that curious planted-and-not-to-be-up-rooted air which distinguishes a man brought up to farming everywhere stood about the corners of the market in groups, or greeted friends on the steps and in the passages of the inns. The cattle-market was on the outskirts of the town, and the business there was over early in the day.

Gertrude Bone - Women of the Country