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Updated: June 28, 2025
I owed him my life a second time such as it was more, for he taught me the duty and grace of resignation, showed me that, though to cherish the memory of a great sorrow ennobles a man, he who abandons himself to unmeasured grief is as pusillanimous as he who shirks his duty on the field of battle. Captain Bigelow had a great heart and a chivalrous nature.
Of course his risk is great. He would have short shrift in Omdurman if his business were detected. So it is not to be wondered at that he shirks the danger at the last moment. As often as not, too, he is a rogue. You make your arrangements with him in Egypt, and hand him over the necessary money. In six months or a year he comes back alone, with a story of excuses.
"He neither sulks nor shirks. It remains that there was but one woman in the world for him, and that she is at Roselands with Lewis Rand." The Major's book fell with a crash to the floor. He stooped quickly and recovered it before the younger man could give him service. "I shall run Mustapha on the sixteenth at Staunton against Carter's York," he said, in a shaking voice.
Though, apparently, he does not derive the same amount of sport from his work as the white man does, he never shirks his work and always takes great pains to prepare for and perfect the setting of his traps. Though he is slow, he is, nevertheless, sure and deadly in his work. Oo-koo-hoo assured me that the secret of successful hunting was intelligence, caution, and patience.
"In that case we wouldn't have won the honor," Dick smilingly insisted. "Then consider that fellow Cartwright," Greg added, lowering his voice a bit. "He's a born shirker, and one weak company would make a regiment that much poorer." "If Cartwright shirks, then mark my word that he'll be dropped," Dick rejoined quickly.
"To be sure," said the Tin Woodman, "if you care to join our party. It was you who first told me it was my duty to find and marry Nimmie Amee, and I'd like you to know that Nick Chopper, the Tin Emperor of the Winkies, is a man who never shirks his duty, once it is pointed out to him."
Instantly the two men detached themselves from the company and came running back. "Fix your bayonets," Greg ordered. "Bring Sergeant Mock in at the rear of the battalion. If he shirks, prod him with the points of your bayonets. Don't be brutal, but make the sergeant keep up at the rear of the battalion." "Sir " began Mock protestingly. "Quite enough for you, Sergeant Mock," Greg rapped out.
My own task since the matter appears to interest you is to work out the laws of human society for those who come after to practice and apply." "And suppose those who come after feel the same unwillingness to practice and apply that you, let us say, feel?" "It becomes the business of government to persuade them." "And if government shirks also?
It is clear that this easy off-hand theory shirks all the real difficulties of the question, and that we must look a little closer into the matter in order to understand the true history of these interesting philological fossils. Already we have got one clear and distinct principle to begin with, which is too often overlooked by amateur philologists.
If, individually and to themselves, no visible good ever came from it, in this world or in any other, still they would say, 'Let us do that and nothing else. Life will be of no value to us if we are to use it only for our own gratification. The soldier before a battle knows that if he shirks and pretends to be ill, he may escape danger and make sure of his life.
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