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Updated: June 29, 2025
"If Fairyland's inside Aldington Knoll," I said, "why don't you dig it out?" "That's what I says," said the young ploughboy. "There's a-many have tried to dig on Aldington Knoll," said the respectable elder, solemnly, "one time and another. But there's none as goes about to-day to tell what they got by digging."
This accusation is, in fact, common to Athens, to Lacedaemon, to all the states of Greece, and to all states similarly situated. Where communities are very large, the heavier evils of war are felt but by few. The ploughboy sings, the spinning-wheel turns round, the wedding-day is fixed, whether the last battle were lost or won.
"He's from Indiana," piped up a homesick ploughboy from the Hoosier State. "Then, it'll be a historical novel," said the gaunt young recruit from Grand Rapids. He was a cynic who had tried newspaper work, and who still maintained that the generals did not have as much intelligence as the privates. "I'll never forget Bansemer when he first enlisted," reflected Joe Adams.
As for marriage, I would sooner marry the first ploughboy I could find in the fields." "Julie you need not insult him." "I will have no more of your Julie; and I will have no more of you." As she said this she rose from her chair, and she walked about the room. "You have betrayed me, and there shall be an end of it." "Betrayed you! what nonsense you talk. In what have I betrayed you?"
I find them there, so to say, whenever I go in; their thoughts are still filling the rooms, after so many years. The garden and the orchard are the first little bits of land my father bought from his earnings as ploughboy. He cultivated them in his leisure hours, and there is literally not a foot of soil which he has not moistened with the sweat of his brow.
And here is the carroty-poled urchin, George Coper, returning from work, and singing 'Home! sweet Home! at the top of his voice; and then, when the notes prove too high for him, continuing the air in a whistle, until he has turned the impassable corner; then taking up again the song and the words, 'Home! sweet Home! and looking as if he felt their full import, ploughboy though he be.
Therefore if I were to do what was rude and dishonest, people would say: 'What could you expect of a ploughboy? A prince ought to be just so much better bred than a ploughboy. I would scorn to do what that prince did. What's wrong in a ploughboy can't be right in a prince, Ranald.
Impossible to conceal the fact that I had recently arrived from Edinburgh as raw as a ploughboy! Quite unaware that he was immature! Quite unaware that the supple curves of his limbs had an almost feminine grace that made older fellows feel paternal! Quite unaware that he had everything to learn, and that all his troubles lay before him!
The Roman villa, excavated after lying lost for centuries beneath the heel of the unwitting ploughboy that villa with its spacious ground-plan, its floors rich with mosaic patterns, its elaborate heating apparatus, and its shattered vases brings home more clearly than any textbook the real meaning of the Roman Empire, whose citizens lived like this in a foggy island at the uttermost edge of its world.
'I know when a man is at ease like a gentleman, and when he is awkward like a 'Like a what? said Clara. 'Finish what you've got to say. 'Like a ploughboy, I was going to say, said Mrs Askerton. 'I declare I think you have a spite against him, because he said you were like some Miss Vigo, replied Clara, sharply.
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