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Updated: June 13, 2025
"I'd like to shucks! But I ain't never seen how neglectin' the duty 't lies to hand helps a fellow to do the one 't is further off. It's all right, Dolly. You speed the good word and watch out for Jim. He'll be coming sure. Good-by good-by." Meanwhile Peter had placed the lunch baskets on the ground, leaving them for Jim and the child.
But they'd been cooped up, and they knew they were not keepin' the dinies down, and they got worried over the work they were neglectin'. So they took turns diggin', like prisoners in a penitentiary, and presently they broke out and like the faithful creatures they are they set anxious to work on their backlog of diny-catchin'. Which they're doin'. They've ruined us entirely, but they meant well."
"An' 'er tears, Guv, them pearly tears went t' my 'eart an' nobody t' put a arm round that waist, nor kiss them sweet lips, nor soothe them tears away "'Oh, alone she sat sighin' by a green willer tree, With 'er 'and on 'er bosom, 'er 'ead on 'er knee, Weepin' willer" willer, willer my garlan' shall be. "So, Guv, I ax you, man to man, why, oh, why are ye neglectin' your fair young spouse?
Ernie writes all this to me and I gets the letter a couple of months ago down in New Orleans, where I was attendin' Mardi Gras, a sort of annual custom of mine, don't you know, old chap, by Jove! I'm terrible careless about my correspondence, which accounts for my neglectin' to write this to you.
And if an officer carries; away a five-inch manila through makin' eyes at girls on the pier-head, I dock his wages for the cost of it, and I log him for neglectin' his duty." The mate looked: at him sharply for a moment; the Captain scowled back. "Have you got anything to say to me?" demanded the Captain. "Yes," said the mate, "I have." He broke into a smile.
"Is Captain Hocken standin' too?" "They say so." "Then I'll plump for both of you. Wait, though I won't promise: or when the canvass starts you'll both be neglectin' me." The next day Cai called in turn with his rent. "And there's another little matter," said he after handing it to her. "You remember that hundred pounds?
"H-how much did you git for your wool, Chester h-how much?" "Guess you hain't here to talk about wool, Bije," said Chester, red with anger. "Kind of neglectin' the farm lately, I hear," observed Bijah. "Jethro Bass sent you up to find out how much I was neglectin' it," retorted Chester, throwing all caution to the winds. "Thinkin' of upsettin' Jethro, be you?
I got a profit, but how do I know 'twas the profit Julia meant? I ought to have gone and asked her afore I sold, that's what I ought to have done, I cal'late." He frowned heavily and added, in a tone of gloomy doubt: "I presume likely I've been neglectin' things things like that, lately, and that's why punishments are laid onto me. I suppose likely that's it."
"H-how much did you git for your wool, Chester h-how much?" "Guess you hain't here to talk about wool, Bije," said Chester, red with anger. "Kind of neglectin' the farm lately, I hear," observed Bijah. "Jethro Bass sent you up to find out how much I was neglectin' it," retorted Chester, throwing all caution to the winds. "Thinkin' of upsettin' Jethro, be you?
Didn't the Holy Apostle say, 'Quit ye like men, be strong? 'Git up a pertition, sez I, 'an' git every decent, honest man in Glendow to sign it, an' send it to the Bishop. Tell 'im? sez I, that the parson isn't neglectin' his parish an' that yez hev full confidence in 'im. "'We don't like to do it, sez they. "'Why not? sez I. "'We don't like to stir up strife, sez they.
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