No-account

"There are ten or fifteen hound-dogs around the yard, and they are actually too no-account to scratch the fleas off."

"Well, I'm sorry to have had to be the one to give you the bad news," he says. What bad news would that be? I'm wondering. That's just one more no-account Carter for me not to have to think on.

You see, corporal, the human race is getting worse all the time. Each year we know less than we did in the preceding. We're more no-account now than we were five hundred years ago.