These were a few of his orders.

Shadrach's list was even longer.

It included going to church every other Sunday: keeping his Sunday shoes blacked: not forgetting to change his collar every morning: to get his hair cut at least once in six weeks: not to eat pie just before going to bed, "because you know if you do, you always have the nightmare and groan and moan and wake up everyone but yourself": not to say "Jumpin'" or "Creepin' Judas" any oftener than he could help: to be sure and not cut prices in the store just because a customer asked him to do so--and goodness knows how much more.
As for Isaiah Chase, his list was so lengthy and varied that the responsibility quite overwhelmed him.
"Gosh t'mighty!" exclaimed Isaiah, desperately.

"I'll never be able to live up to all them sailin' orders and I know it.

I've put some of 'em down on a piece of paper, but I ain't even got them straight, and as for the million or two others--whew! I'm to dust every day, and sweep every other day, and change the tablecloth, and see that the washin' goes when it ought to, and feed the horse the cat--no, no, feed the cat oats--Oh, consarn it! Feed the cat and the horse and the hens their reg'lar vittles at reg'lar times and--and--Oh, my soul! Yes, and let alone my own self and all that's laid onto me, I must keep an eye on Captain Shad and Zoeth and see that they do what's been laid onto THEM.