The
higgler to whom the hare was sold, being unfortunately taken many months after with a quantity of game upon him, was obliged to make his peace with the squire, by becoming evidence against some poacher.
There were more than 200 entries, some from as far away as Australia, and the winning name was Lee Southern's suggestion: Shepley
Higgler.
His prowess with the noose earned him the title 'The Dudley
Higgler'.
Higgler [...] and her friends had performed a ritual on him that had separated his divine deviousness from the human" (Wearring 246).
In the library there are a few music manuscripts from the 15th-19th centuries, and prints from the 17th-19th century including 2,037 inventory numbers of broad-sheet (
higgler) ballads.
bammy and its refined cousin, the cassava wafer." Reflecting similar sentiments, though through less didactic prose, Thompson's narrator, in his sketch "Country Town Saturday Night," observes crowds collecting to buy material along the main road of a country town, pausing in the "soot-grimed interior of a fry fish and
higgler shop" where "various patrons sit on bundles of wood and partake informally of the bill of fare--bread and fried fish and pepper after that coffee and oily "chocolate" served in chipped enamel cups." His style, reminiscent of his American contemporary Jean Toomer, is at once modernist, experimental, and romantic: his prose shines a light into the dark corners of rural life, revealing characters who are both ordinary--seemingly 'real'--and exotic:
Visitors can also see a scribe,
higgler, herbalist, candle dipper, blacksmith and carpenter who have travelled to Norton and set up camp, while they use the resources of the forest and the woodland around them in their everyday lives.
John Hodgson, Rector of Kinver, mentioned that `There are no Lynes of any position here -- the only man of the name, a
higgler of coal (George Lines), has resided about nineteen years in the parish'.
His talent was recognized and other collections of stories followed, including Fishmonger's Fiddle (1925), which contained what is perhaps his best story, "The
Higgler." The charm of his stories lay in his poetic feeling for the countryside and in his amusing and dramatic presentation of rustic characters.
A
higgler, he wrote (an old word for a travelling merchant), had his cart, his hovel and his hog-stye carried off into the meadow, and the lower rooms of the houses near the River Lea were filled with water.
The Jamaican Country
Higgler. Social and Economic Studies 8(4):424-35.
She wore the full
higgler's uniform--full length bib in heavy green, the kind that is a dress except that the back is empty, only a waist band shows there, fastened with a big button.