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The average human being is little more than a phonographic record of the dominant race-thought, and race-thought ideas are contagious. Let us honor and provide for all mothers and all children and we will find that the birthrate will increase among the "rich and respectable," where now we note a determined desire to shirk the responsibilities of parenthood.
I am certainly not going to argue the point, nor do I wish to shirk what responsibility I took on my shoulders when I married. But if it is upon your advice she has acted in this matter, ask God to forgive you for the cruel wrong you have done us both!" Then he picked up his hat and went out of the house.
All is hazy yet, but skies clear, and so do most of our problems. If the two ends of my string should chance to come together " But here a look from his Chief stopped him. "Let us pray that they won't. But if they do, we shall not shirk our duty, Gryce." "Assurance does it, sir a great deal of assurance. Not that I have much " Here Mr. Gryce laughed, with the result that Sweetwater laughed also.
Besides being physically unable to carry an even end with him, this workman was prone to shirk every part of his work that he could, this portion falling largely on Jack to do in addition to his own. Jack paid no heed to this, however, but kept about his work as if everything was all right, until a little incident occurred which completely changed the aspect of affairs.
"I wouldn't lower myself by a comparison with him. He's only a laborer, and will grow up a clodhopper." "He's my friend, John Haynes," said Dick stoutly, "and if you've got anything else to say against him, you'll oblige me by going farther off." John left in high dudgeon. That day, to his father's surprise, Dick worked with steady industry, and did not make a single attempt to shirk.
The men shirk out of difficulties of this kind by going off in the morning early to their work with the parting remark, 'Aw, you'd better see about it; I don't knaw nothing about such jobs. The High Bailiff has no easy task to swear the Plaintiff's representative. First, she takes the book and kisses it before the formula prescribed has been repeated.
'He'll find they don't coalesce, or his children will. Once the masses are uppermost! It's a bad day, Dacier, when we 've no more gentlemen in the land. Emmy backs him, so I hold my tongue. To-morrow's a Sunday. I wish you were staying here; I 'd take you to church with me-we shirk it when we haven't a care. It couldn't do you harm. I've heard capital sermons.
What it was necessary for patriotic American citizens and particularly for Western Democrats to understand was, not whether the South possessed a dubious right of secession, because that dispute, in case it came to a head, could only be settled by war; but whether a democratic nation could on democratic principles continue to shirk the problem of slavery by shifting the responsibility for it to individuals and localities.
He loved his children, and if a boy could be saved by so simple a means as "strap-oil," he was not the man to shirk his duty. He was neither better nor worse than the average preacher of his day. No doubt, too, the poverty and constant misunderstandings with congregations led to much irritability it is hard to be amiable on half-rations.
I've been years in collecting them, ever since I left college. Those on railroads ought especially to interest you I'm somewhat of a railroad man myself." "I didn't know that," said Austen. "Had two or three blocks of stock in subsidiary lines that had to be looked after. It was a nuisance at first," said Mr. Crewe, "but I didn't shirk it.
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