| It was because for the time you had been a hedger and ditcher. |
| And word was sent far and near, to squire and farmer, hedger and ditcher. |
| Any comparison between the material comfort of a Kentucky slave and an English ditcher and delver would be preposterous. |
| Why, thou rascal, said he to the ditcher, didst thou not tell me it was hard at bottom? |
| As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road. |
| The necessary occupation of a ditcher prepares him to work in the trenches, and to fortify a camp, as well as to inclose a field. |
