“You cannot have the new farmer unless you also have the mossback.”

“Especially was this true in dealing with the riverman's arch-enemy, the mossback.”

“They kept the staid, mossback citizen awake in the afternoons and he did not like it.”

“It won't really appease either the die-hard mossbacks or the fanatic up-to-the-minutes.”

“But if we look for the reasons for his fall only in the sins of the mossbacks in Washington, we will miss an important part of the lesson of all of this.”

“Some 247,800 yellowtail also were taken, which means it will rank as the fourth or fifth best year for mossbacks.”