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ing, and who kept on saying : " You lie ! you 

 " lie! yow lie! you lie!" as loud as he could 

 utter the words. 



445. BAKER, the Botley Parson, was ex 

 tremely busy. He acted the part of buffoon to 

 LOCKHART. He kept capering about behind 



. him, and really seemed like a merry andrew 

 rather than a " spiritual person" 



446. Such is the character of the great body 

 of Hampshire Parsons. I know of no body of 

 men so despicable, and yet, what sums of pub 

 lic money do they swallow ! It now remains 

 for me to speak more particularly of BAKER, 

 he who, for your sins I suppose, is fastened 

 upon you as your Parson. But what I have 

 to say of this man must be the subject of an 

 other Letter. That it should be the subject of 

 any letter at all may well surprize all who 

 know the man ; for not one creature knows him 

 without despising him. But, it is not BAKER, 

 it is the scandalous priest, that I strike at. It 

 is the impudent, profligate, hardened priest 

 that I will hold up to public scorn. 



447. When I see the good and kind people 

 here going to church to listen to some decent 

 man of good moral character and of sober quiet 

 life, I always think of you. You are just the 

 game sort of people as they are here ; but, what 

 a difference in the Clergyman ! What a differ- 



