He would show this girl and her mossback father.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum
I have no doubt but that I could have eaten as much tobacco as Matches did, and escaped with only a short illness, but the sickly little mossback didn't have the constitution that we ring-tails have.
"The Story of Dago"
Annie Fellows-Johnston
Part o' these mountain folks is men an' moonshiners, an' they don't think any more about a feller that owns a bank in Atlanta 'an they do of a mossback clod-hopper with the right sort o' heart in 'im.
"The Desired Woman"
Will N. Harben