Besides such epithets as hayseed and clodhopper, contemptuous in their very origin, villain (farm servant), churl (farm laborer), and boor (peasant) have all gathered unto themselves opprobrium; villain now involves a scoundrelly spirit, churl a contumelious manner, boor a bumptious ill-breeding; not one of these words is any longer confined in its application to a particular social rank.

"Boss, the hayseeds have run off," called the man from the flat car.

I ain't no regular hayseed.

The old man, with the hayseed in his hair, and the stains of bitumen upon his gnarled hands, ate and drank of the best, seeing a glorified vision of his Lily crowned with diamonds at last.

Jew and gentile, greaser and dude, tin-horn gamblers and tenderfeet, hayseeds and merchants, jostled each other good humouredly.

I can button up my vest and look respectable, but they's hayseeds and shuttlin's all over you, and besides I got a necktie, and yore handkerchief is so sloshed up you can't tie it round yore neck.

It was the very end of August, and although school opened the first Monday in September, Mrs. Carey was not certain whether Gilbert would walk into the old-fashioned, white painted academy with the despised Beulah "hayseeds," or whether he would make a scene, and authority would have to be used.

[Lat.], son of the land; serf, kern^, tyke, tike, chuff^, ryot^, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy^; rustic, hayseed

And I who know no more of fighting than can be learned on a peaceful farm A VOICE Thresh out his hayseed!

"I'll bet there's lots of hayseed in it!" The subject of their derisive remarks, although standing but a scant distance away, apparently heard none of them.

" "Perhaps; but there's one thing sure, Bart: that hayseed will be a better player than you at the end of two monthsthat is, if he gets taken on.

" "Do you know," said Dora, as they went up the broad steps, sprinkled with straw and hayseed, "that what are called common cows are often really better than Alderneys, or Ayrshires, and those sorts?

Harry told how he had bowled the old farmer over just as the man was about to shoot at Frank, and then he convulsed them with laughter by relating the capture of the gun and the chase he had led the hayseed.

He's only President because he can talk the hayseeds in the Legislature into giving the University big appropriations.

[Illustration: hayseed] "Do you hear the Boches kicking up that racket over there?"

The stranger often took him for a "hayseed," but on further acquaintance opened his mouth in astonishment, for Soc.

Rennick Parnie Bowers Birdie Taylor Griff and Keir Hardy Nelson Marie and Bronte Gran Cherry-Garrard Cherry Wright Silas, Toronto Priestley Raymond Debenham Deb Bruce Drake Francis Atkinson Jane, Helmin, Atchison Oates Titus, Soldier, 'Farmer Hayseed' (by Bowers)

I thought to stop it one time, putting in a fistful of hayseed; but I felt in my heart that was not dealing fair and honest with myself, and I rose up and shook it out again, rising up from my bed in the night time.

© 16Feb23, A762514. R68724, 25Oct50, Tullar-Meredith Co. (PWH) HAYSEED, a musical comedy in two acts by A. E. Thomas.

© 16Feb23, A762514. R68724, 25Oct50, Tullar-Meredith Co. (PWH) HAYSEED, a musical comedy in two acts by A. E. Thomas.

Evidently he had no fear of being-called a "clodhopper" or a "hayseed!"

Boyds and Burnses and Smythes tripping the light fantastic with them, and not half a dozen dresses better than alpacas in the crowd, and the men many of them in drilling trousersand half of them with hayseed in their hair from the load on which they rode to the party!

Their clothes were covered with hayseed and straw, and their hands and faces were black with soot from the old cabin chimney.

If anybody else had bought her but this cursed Missourian, who hasn't got the hayseed out of his hair, I might have found out something from him, and saved myself this kind of fooling, which isn't in my line.