Some things he knew thoroughly, namely, the slovenly habits of farming, and the awkwardness of weather, stock and crops, at Freeman's End—so called apparently by way of sarcasm, to imply that a man was free to quit it if he chose, but that there was no earthly "beyond" open to him.
" In those days everything in the islands was done in a slovenly, slouching manner.
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill, It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
It is, instead, evidence of its slow and slovenly triumph.
If it is slovenly, it is the subject of disgust.
