But then Water Larker, the most warlike of the frogs, took up a great pebble and flung it at Ham Nibbler who was then pursuing Reedy.
"The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles"
Padraic Colum
Indeed, I was now what is termed a regular Mud-Larker, picking up halfpence by running into the water, offering my ragged arm to people getting out of the wherries, always saluting them with, "You haven't got never a half penny for poor Jack, your honour?"
"Poor Jack"
Frederick Marryat