turnip-growers

Updated: May 21, 2025

Here am I, well-reputed in the faculty, and my wife coming of the Parker Putwells, one of the rare old county stocks none of your newfangled button-men and turnip-growers and I'm no Justice, because I'm a Church-and-King man of the old school." "They went out of fashion with flaxen bobs," said I. "Come on, my tousled macaroni!" said he.

George W. Gough - The Yeoman Adventurer