"I've taken a notion into my old numskull," observed Silver.
"Treasure Island"
Robert Louis Stevenson
All this village is very much pleased that your ladyship has made a governor of my good man Sancho; though nobody will believe it, particularly the curate, and Master Nicholas the barber, and the bachelor Samson Carrasco; but I don't care for that, for so long as it is true, as it is, they may all say what they like; though, to tell the truth, if the coral beads and the suit had not come I would not have believed it either; for in this village everybody thinks my husband a numskull, and except for governing a flock of goats, they cannot fancy what sort of government he can be fit for.
"The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cum to find out, the numskull had cut the bushes down, an then scraped them around, jest what I had telled him not to do.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith