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Updated: June 27, 2025
"How about the thousands of families who don't earn enough to live decently even in times of prosperity?" inquired Krebs. "It's hard, I'll admit, but the inefficient and the shiftless are bound to suffer, no matter what form of government you adopt." "You talk about standards of living, I could show you some examples of standards to make your heart sick," he said.
Along the Mississippi at strategic points stretching northward beyond the mouth of the Missouri were a few French settlements, ragged enough and with a shiftless population of fur traders and farmers, but adequate to assert France's possession of that mighty highway. The weak point in France's position was in her connection of the Mississippi with the St. Lawrence by way of the Ohio.
But to Henry with his sensitive ear attuned to every shade of feeling that night the cry was not so full of exultation and triumph as the one before. "Afraid the trap will fail to shut down on us," he said to the shiftless one. "I read it that way." "A little faster, Sol! A little faster! We must make sure!"
These laws of course brought many shiftless folk who, having got hopelessly into debt somewhere else, ran away to Carolina to get free of it. Indeed so many of these undesirables came that the Virginians called Carolina the Rogues' Harbour. Besides all these white people there were a great many negroes especially in South Carolina. This came about naturally.
He sued a poor, shiftless fellow that had come from Pennsylvania to his daughter's funeral, and had him arrested and taken off, crying, just before the funeral begun after they'd even set the flowers on the coffin; and nobody'd speak to him after that they just let him alone; and after a while his wife took sick of it she was a nice, kindly woman and she had sort of hysterics, and, finally, he moved off West.
His hired girl a shiftless creeter had flown the day Arvilly got there, and nothin' stood in the way of marriage and happiness. Arvilly's heart yearned over the little girl that had never walked a step, and she loved her Pa, and the Pa loved her.
Snooks, too, arriving when the house was fragrant with the mingled odors of blueberry turnovers, spiced cake and gingersnaps, sniffed appreciatively, and lost no time in expressing her surprise. "Well, I want to know. I've heard tell that city folks most generally bought their cake and stuff, instead of baking it. Dreadful shiftless way, I call it.
He learned the nature of all the herbs, those that might be useful to man and those that might be harmful, he was already as skillful with a canoe as either the guide or the shiftless one, he could follow a trail like an Indian, and the habits of the wild animals he observed with a minute and remembering eye.
"It's a country that demands a great deal," the girl said thoughtfully. "Sure," was the dry reply. "The prairie breaks the weak and shiftless pretty quick; we only have room for hard men who'll stand up against whatever comes along." "And do you think that description fits the Englishman we met?" "Well," said her father, "I guess he wouldn't back down if things went against him."
The shiftless one reached out his hand and touched Henry's lightly. "I'm glad you didn't shoot," he said. "I'd have done the same that you did." An hour later they were all asleep but Tom Ross, who watched at the edge of the glade, and Henry, who lay on his back in the grass, gazing at the stars that flashed and danced in the blue sky.
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