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Updated: June 15, 2025
But yo're for the big folks, Muster Garth, yo are." Timothy was a wiry old laborer, of a type lingering in those times who had his savings in a stocking-foot, lived in a lone cottage, and was not to be wrought on by any oratory, having as little of the feudal spirit, and believing as little, as if he had not been totally unacquainted with the Age of Reason and the Rights of Man.
It was drizzling weather, and I was feeling very lean. Before going I presented my hostess and the children with two sovereigns apiece. 'It is English gold, I said, 'for I have to travel among our enemies and use our enemies' money. But the gold is good, and if you go to any town they will change it for you. But I advise you to put it in your stocking-foot and use it only if all else fails.
They saw how he, as in a fever, sprang from his wretched pallet, and took a loose stone out of the wall. There lay gold coins in a stocking-foot; he fumbled at his ragged tunic, in which gold coins were sewed fast, and his moist fingers trembled. "He is ill: it is insanity; encircled by fear and evil dreams."
"And I must cross it with silver, I suppose?" "To be sure." I gave her a shilling: she put it into an old stocking-foot which she took out of her pocket, and having tied it round and returned it, she told me to hold out my hand. I did. She approached her face to the palm, and pored over it without touching it. "It is too fine," said she.
I'd just like Noll to see it!" Martha looked, and drew a thread or two into her stocking, and looked again. Then she stabbed her cotton-ball with her needle, and put up both hands one with the white stocking-foot still drawn over it beside her temples. At last she castled. Sue was as calm as the morning. She always grew calm and strong as the game drew near the end.
He had always suspected that the old man kept something in a stocking-foot, and had often rallied him upon his unnecessary caution with respect to investments; but this statement of his appeared incredible. "What does it matter if it was twenty thousand, when I tell you it's gone," said Trevethick, sullenly. "That limb of the devil, Yorke, is off with every shilling of it."
Under the white quilt he made some undistinguishable sound, but he kept his eyes fastened on his pardner. "Everything that we Americans have done, everything that we are, is achieved by the grace of goin' bang the other way." The Boy pulled off a muckluck and threw it half across the room. "And yet, and yet " He sat with one stocking-foot in his hand and stared at the candle.
"You needn't mind telling me! I know all about such things. Look here! Give me that pocket-book on the table." Mary brought him the pocket-book. He opened it, and, taking from it some notes, held them out to her. "If your mistress won't pay you your wages, I will. There! take that. You're quite welcome. What matter which pays you? It all comes out of the same stocking-foot."
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