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I hear Paul talkin' 'bout the Old World, but thar can't be anythin' in it half ez fine ez all these woods in the fall, jest blazin' with red an' yellow, an' gold an' brown, an' the air sparklin' enough to make an old man young." The face of the shiftless one glowed as he spoke. Every word he said came straight from his heart and Henry shared in his fervor.
"But Frenchmen are not named Bob and Dick," said Paul with a smile. "Wa'al ef they ain't they ought to be," said the shiftless one with conviction.
"You could become more bee-yu-ti-ful a heap o' times an' then be nothin' to brag about," retorted the shiftless one. "Now let's all go to sleep," said Henry. "It must be past midnight, and you may be sure that there will be plenty of work for us to do to-morrow." "'Nough said," said Tom Ross. He threw himself upon one of the couches of skins and in three minutes was fast asleep.
Accompanying this flood of emigrants of good faith was the usual froth and scum of shiftless idlers and adventurers, who were either drifting with a current they were too worthless to withstand, or in pursuit of dishonest gains in fresher and simpler regions. The vices and virtues of the pioneers were such as proceeded from their environment.
Dirty, frowsy women, idle men, lounging along with the slouching gait which is common to the 'unemployed' Italian, half-naked children, running hither and thither in the mud, and screaming like tortured wild animals, this kind of shiftless, thriftless humanity, pictured against the background of ugly modern houses, such as one might find in a London back slum, made up a cheerless prospect, particularly as the blue sky was clouded and it was beginning to rain.
Here and there was one of a different quality, a scantily-dressed woman with a thin, wasted face and hollow eyes, who had been fighting the wolf and keeping fast hold of her integrity, or a tender, innocent-looking girl, the messenger of a weak and shiftless mother, or a pale, bright-eyed boy whose much-worn but clean and well-kept garments gave sad evidence of a home out of which prop and stay had been removed.
Why don't you behave desunt like other folks? Go to work and earn a honist livin and not stay round here in this lazy, shiftless way, pizenin the moral atmosphere with your pestifrous ideas! You wimin folks go back to your lawful husbands if you've got any, and take orf them skanderlous gownds and trowsis, and dress respectful like other wimin.
These words seemed to resound like a sort of heraldic proclamation to call around us all that softly shiftless class, who, for some reason or other, are never to be found with anything in hand at the moment that it is wanted.
Maynard to look to for advice, I think I can get along." "The idea of putting a boy like you over a farm!" returned Mrs. Roxana, in an uncompromising tone. "I did think your father had more sense. It's the most shiftless thing I ever knew him to do. How does your poor mother feel about it?" "She doesn't seem as much disturbed about it as you do, Mrs.
"I guess you didn't hear anything either, Henry," continued the shiftless one, "'cause it looked to me that you wuz 'bout ez near sleep ez a feller could be without bein' ackshooally so." "I was drifting away," said Henry. He was beginning to realize that he had a great power, or rather gift.
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