"Yas'm he sho has choked me."
"And now doesn't he threaten to split your head with an ax?"
"Yas'm he has done all dat," agreed Jennie, "but he ain' done nothin' yet so bad I couldn't live wid him."
See also Carelessness; Domestic finance.
HYPOCRISY
Hypocrisy will serve as well
To propagate a church, as zeal;
As persecution and promotion