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public money here, do something for it* They 

 earn it. They are no richer than other people. 

 The Judges here are plain-dressed men. They 

 go about with no sort of parade. They are 

 dressed, on the Bench, like other men. The 

 lawyers the same. Here are no black gowns 

 and scarlet gowns and big foolish-looking wigs. 

 Yet, in the whole world, there is not so well- 

 behaved, so orderly, so steady a people ; a 

 people so obedient to the law. But, it is the 

 law only that they will bow to. They will 

 bow to nothing else. And, they bow with re 

 verence to the law, because they know it to 

 be just, and because it is made by men, whom 

 they have all had a hand in choosing. 



429. And, then, think of the tithes! I have 

 talked to several farmers here about the tithes 

 in England ; and, they laugh. They some 

 times almost make me angry; for they seem, 

 at last, not to believe what I say, when I tell 

 them, that the English farmer gives., and is 

 compelled to give, the Parson a tenth part of 

 his whole crop and of his fruit and milk and 

 eggs and calves and lambs and pigs and wool 

 and honey. They cannot believe this. They 

 treat it as a sort of romance. I sometimes al 

 most wish them to be farmers in England, f 

 said to a neighbour the other day, in half an 

 ger : " I wish your farm were at Botley. There 



