For a few moments more they watched the advancing throng, and then Jimsy cried suddenly: "Why, that's Sheriff Lawley with Mortlake, and there's Si hardscrabble the constable, right behind them, what can they be after?"
"The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise"
Margaret Burnham
hardscrabble, flushed and swollen with importance, stepped forward.
"The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise"
Margaret Burnham
This gave it, in after times, the name of the "hardscrabble Road."
"The Bark Covered House or, Back in the Woods Again"
William Nowlin