spadesmen

Updated: May 25, 2025

Here have we been nigh two hours in doing what Diggon the sexton would have done to better purpose in half a one." "We are wretched spadesmen enough," answered Dr. Rochecliffe. "Every man to his tools thou to thy bugle-horn, and I to my papers in cipher. But do not be discouraged; it is the frost on the ground, and the number of roots, which rendered our task difficult.

Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock; or, the Cavalier