He goes about his business in a leisurely manner

the purl of a brook

Are we entitled, therefore, to force this on the Catholic youth of Ireland, with or without its Berkeleio-Humeian developments, or its farther mystification of German verbiage; or shall we cut it out, and substitute for Locke, and Butler, and Hallam, and Macaulay, “Catholic” History, Metaphysics, and Sociology?

When I was growing up, everybody had a little dog they called a feist or fice and a big yard dog, a cur.