This is the deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better.

I could have bitten him, the sawn-off little rube!

Foster, he thought, must certainly be scared of his wife, if he daren't show himself in this little rube town.

Me, the deluded little rube who thought you could ever earn enough, know enough, own enough, run fast enough, hide well enough.

"He was just a little rube," said Charlie Norris.