A good heart and a true is better far than gear.
In every time and place,
He wears a smiling face,
Who goes to God for grace.
Who does his honest duty, boys, need never, never fear.
“Aye, that’s right,” said Kasper Crabtree. “Honest duty, as you say, is the right sort of thing. I only wish my lazy fellows did a little more on ’t.”
“A little more” was Kasper Crabtree’s creed in a word.
“Why, you see,” said Blithe Natty, “its often ‘like master like man’; pipe i’t parlour, dance i’t kitchen; an’ maybe if you were to do your duty to them a little better they would do better by you. ‘Give a pint an’ gain a peck; give a noggin’ an’ get nowt.’”
Kasper Crabtree did not relish this salutary home-thrust, and made haste to change the subject.