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"'Tis a hopeless case, if you ask me." The A.O. announced this with a fine air of resignation. His pay was 2s. 6d. a week, and he never erred on the side of zeal. "Better fit you was lookin' up such cases than idlin' here and wastin' baccy. That's if you ask me," retorted the Elder. "I've a-talked to the maid, an' I've a-talked to her gran'father, till I'm tired," said Hancock, and spat again.
"The village loafer and ne'er-do-weel," exclaimed Janice, reflecting her father's view. "He ain't idlin' much these-a-days," asserted Philemon, "and the boys all like him for his jokes an' good-nature. I tell you 't was great sport ter see him an' your redemptioner give it ter each other.
Besides, you have no idea what the people here and your former shipmates are saying about you." "Indeed, dear lass, what do they say?" "Well, they say now you've got well they can't understand why you should go loafing about doin' nothin' or idling your time in London, instead of goin' to sea." "Idlin' my time!" exclaimed Fred with affected indignation. "How do they know I'm idlin' my time?
What if I was studyin' to be a doctor or a parson?" "Perhaps they'd say that was idlin' your time, seein' that you're only a fisherman," returned Isa, looking up in her lover's face with a bright smile. "But tell me, Fred, why should you have any secret from me?"
While we're idlin', I wish we had three or four o' them books that your father an' Mr. Pennypacker brought over the mountains with 'em." "So do I," said Paul, with a sigh. He was thinking of an interminable romance, translated from the French of a certain Mademoiselle de Scudéry, which his teacher, Mr.
"It's almost sunset, Snippey dear, an' we've been idlin' here when we ought'er been huntin' for a house where we can stay till mornin'. It's fine, I know," he added, as he took the tiny dog in his arms; "but I don't believe it would be very jolly to hang 'round in such a place all night. Besides, who knows but there are bears?
"Has he gone?" she demanded, when Lucy returned. "Yes." "Thank the Lord. The fool doesn't know anything, anyway. Now you go back downstairs an' finish up your work. There ain't no call for you to be idlin' the day out, even if I am." "I don't like to leave you alone." "Pooh, pooh! I can't no more'n die, an' if I was to start doin' that you couldn't stop me."
"Now, boys," said Jemmy, after dropping a spittle into his pipe, pressing it down with his little finger, and putting it into his waistcoat pocket, "see an' get them praties down as soon as you can, an' don't work as if you intended to keep your Christmas there; an' Paddy the Bounce, I'll thank you to keep your jokes an' your stories to yourself, an' not to be idlin' the rest till afther your work's done.
"I'm glad I done it; for it will make a man of Lisha; and, if I've sent him to his death, God knows he'll be fitter to die than if he stayed here idlin' his life away." Then the good soul openly shouldered the burden she had borne so long in secret, and bravely trudged on alone. "Another great battle!" screamed the excited news-boys in the streets.
Reuben Johnson leaned on his hoe, and, looking up at the sun, wondered whether, as in the Biblical story, it had not been stationary for several hours. He was sure it was never so long in descending to the horizon. "Wake up, Rube," sharply called his Uncle Peter, smartly hoeing another row a few paces behind him, "doan be idlin' your time; de sun am foah hours high yit."
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