It should be met by the surprised rejoinder of the hoosier school-mistress: "Don't yer know enough to speak when yer spoken to?"
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Whisper it not to each other that I was seeking a foreign appointment through the influence of my fellow hoosier, the late Vice-President of the United States.
"Hoosier Mosaics"
Maurice Thompson
As an artist our hoosier was not a genius, but he certainly understood how to manufacture a notoriety.
"Hoosier Mosaics"
Maurice Thompson