The tinker, notwithstanding his vagrant habits, is sometimes a man of substance, owning two or more small cottages, built out of his savings by the village mason-the materials perhaps carted for him free by a friendly Fanner.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
The present Fanner, who is getting just a trifle heavy in the saddle himself, can tell you the names of labourers living in the village whose forefathers rose in that insurrection.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
But here he was, angry with life and reckless; and when Fanner Durham charged him with stealing wheat, the old man had to ride fast to escape the stones which the furious fool hurled after him.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois