sluggard

It carried a story about a boy who had his teeth kicked out by a horse, an article on a farmer who had two sons: one “an early riser” and the other “an incorrigible sluggard”, and a report on the water depth of the Mahoning River.

For example, government efficiency is but a pipe dream, and government effectiveness can be easily called the primary sluggard in reform.

‘It is time to get up. It is half past four and very foggy. Come on! Sam is already getting breakfast ready. Even Pippin is up. I am just going to saddle the ponies, and fetch the one that is to be the baggage-carrier. Wake that sluggard Fatty! At least he must get up and see us off.’

‘All others are up and doing. Come, Master Sluggard, and look at this place while you may!’

‘Come on, you miserable sluggard!’