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And Westy had gone and spoiled it all and, gee, that's one word I don't like slacker. When I got to the other landing I started following that trail. If you think Westy had anything to do with it, you're mighty mistaken, because he didn't. He always wore scout shoes, I knew that. Well, believe me, that trail was a cinch and I could follow it as easy as a clothes line.
It was dreadful, and it was funny to see Rosalind looking like that, and to realize the extent of her weakness and her obstinacy. Yet Rosalind had not changed. She was still the school-girl slacker who could never do a stroke of work until somebody had pushed her into it, who could never leave off working until stopped by the same hand that had set her going.
Iffen Kitchell has got him some diehards backin’ him—" Nye shrugged again. "Git ’long there, you knock-kneed, goat-headed wagon-loafer!" He pushed on to haze another slacker. They were dusty and dry when they dropped the corral gate in place and watched the horses mill around. Drew headed for Kells’ stable.
Tradition has willed it thus. If the war continue any length of time doubtless the United States will also become infuriated with the slacker, and I tremble to think of the special brand of justice that woman in particular will have in store for the man who does not really go to the front, or who, thanks to intrigue and a uniform, is spending his days in peace and safety.
Here was this young slacker, coddled from birth, absolutely horse-strong and utterly confounded at being told so. He grinned and chuckled so much that he nearly killed his most valuable old lady patient, who was crossing the High Street.
Thesel will lose that eye it's gone now and Swann is also disfigured for life. What a damned shame!" "Chief, are you sure it's any kind of a shame?" Lane's query appeared to provoke thought. Bell replaced the little automatic pistol he had picked up beside Swann, and rising he looked at Lane. "Swann was a slacker. Thesel was your Captain in the war.
When, waist-deep, I floundered down a shingle spit, the half-submerged beast, handicapped by its burden, swept past out of reach, and I caught a momentary glimpse of a wet white face and a man's uplifted arm before a tumbling ridge splashed up and hid them. "Couldn't never overtake them, but it's running slacker in the river," the prospector said.
A scholar who cannot translate ten lines of The Aeneid between the time he is put on and the time he begins to speak is unworthy of pity or consideration, and if I meet him in the street I shall assuredly cut him. Aeschylus, on the other hand, is a demon, and needs careful watching, though in an emergency you can always say the reading is wrong. Sometimes the compleat slacker falls into a trap.
"That's so far away he won't come home soon," she thought. "It'll give me a chance to arrange for the operation. I hope he goes soon. That's a dreadful thing to say! The days are all too short for Mother Bab, I know." If the days seemed Mercury-shod to the blind mother she did not complain. "It's hard to let you go," she said to her boy, "but it would be harder to see you a slacker.
Blaine laughed gleefully as he turned away, patting Orris on the shoulder approvingly. "I always thought you were a sticker, Orry." "That's better 'n being a slicker or a slacker, isn't it?" Again the big fellow laughed as he hurried off towards the Captain's quarters at the far end of the grounds. The day passed quietly.
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