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Updated: June 13, 2025
Live always with the fear of God in your heart; do nothing that you think will displease Him; love your fellow-creatures serve them and relieve their wants an' distresses as far as you're able; be like your own father kind and good to all about you, not neglectin' your religious duties.
For both which reasons I don't want no trouble with y'. So I'll be obliged if y'll hire a hall, or find somebody else t' scold, and let up on me for a change. This is Sunday, and I'd like a little rest." Father Pat went a foot nearer to the longshoreman. "Because I'm a priest," he answered, "I'll not be neglectin' me duty.
I wonder what in tunket's become of Jan," he speculated. "We've been so busy that he went clean out of my mind. It's queer he didn't show up again. He ain't stayed away for a whole day in all history. Mebbe he's took sick. I believe I'll trudge over there an' find out what's got him. I mustn't go to neglectin' Jan, inventin' or no inventin'." He rose from his chair wearily.
It would have done you good to see the brothers and sisters crowd round him, lookin' so excited 'bout the care of somethin' anybody can take care of without neglectin' business.
Spriggins as "the apple of her eye," but he always came in for a decent share of the scolding. "Now, what that critter is a galavantin' to town and gettin' so many letters is mor'n I can tell. Seems to me he must be neglectin' sumthin', for I tell ye things won't git along without puttin' your shoulder to the wheel." "That's all right Jerushy, but I don't think there is any danger of our Moses.
Hit'll do him good, too, ef he heed me, I lay to dat. Mebbe he ain't been raised de way we is down yere. Ef so, dat's his misfortune." The voice changed. "Whut would yore pore daid mother say ef she knowed I wuz neglectin' my plain duty to you two lone chillen? Think I gwine run ary chancet of havin' you two gals talked about by all de low-down pore w'ite trash scandalisers in dis town?
You're way off the course. The idea of you sayin' your mother was neglectin' me." "I didn't say it. You have said it a dozen times, but I haven't." "I said it? I never. Your mother is a fine woman, Gertie; as good a woman as ever was." "I know that. And she would not neglect you wilfully for the world. But she has not had experience. She takes people and things at their face value.
"Because all four of ye boys are neglectin' what ye ought to do, and takin' for this the time which by right should be spent on other things; because ye've given yer fathers and mothers more cause to find fault with ye durin' the last two or three weeks than for long before, all on account of it; because ye're none of ye so good-natured as ye used to be.
"Pether," said she, "it's like a dhrame to me that you're neglectin' your business, alanna." "Is it you, beauty? but, maybe, you'd first point out to me what business, barrin' buttherin' up yourself, I have to mind, you phanix bright?" "Quit yourself, Pether! it's time for you to give up your ould ways; you caught one bird wid them, an' that's enough. What do you intind to do!
Last thing I done down-town was order the treat." He nested his head in his interlocked fingers and leaned back. "Louada Murilla, you and me is goin' to take solid comfort from now on and there's nothin' like bein' popular in the place where you live." He glanced sideways at the little blank-book. "We've been kind of neglectin' that, hain't we, wife?
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