The fairy books love to tell about some clodhopper suddenly enchanted up into a king.
But life's good fairies see to it that the clodhopper is enchanted into readiness for kingship before he lands upon the throne.
The title represents the incessant remark of a country clodhopper to his "boss.
This feeling was followed by a desperate sort of anger over the realization that a low, shiftless clodhopper could so materially upset a man of his importance.
The story is told that a simple clodhopper once walked ever so many miles to see King George IV.
You give me the wages of a clodhopper and ask me to prepare a table fit for a king.
You mean that clodhopper with the tight-fitting hand-me-down in the seat behind us--yesterday?
She laughed aloud at Carrington's scowl, and then went on: "I don't think the clodhopperwas asleep.
Honest Jemmy the gentleman has taken the sthad an' won't fork out any longer, so that I must either run a cast or two every now an' then, or turn clodhopper like himself.
Clinton and I shall honor that lugubrious ceremony with our presence; but as respecting theclodhopper himself, meaning thereby Bryan of Ahadarra, he is provided for.
