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pig dies he is good for several shillings towards its 

 successor ; his long-tailed coats cut up into two for 

 the boys, with a piece to spare for patches ; his 

 store of beef-tea and little liver pills and flannel is 

 practically inexhaustible. Of course, there are many 

 things which he might give her, yet does not give ; 

 she by no means approves entirely even of him. 

 But on the other hand there is, with his exception, 

 no person in the world from whom she can count 

 on extracting anything whatever ; and her politics 

 are confined to the maintenance of friendly relations 

 with the sole government which comes within the 

 limit of her experience. 



Her religion is also narrow. She clings with 

 fervour to the book of Genesis and to a few other 

 plain and simple stories in subsequent portions of 

 the Bible which seem to her coherent and worthy 

 of attention. Sometimes this is a grief to her 

 husband, who objects to her readings as behind the 

 feeling of the age. 



" Don't tell the child the world was made in six 

 days, an' don't tell en it wasrit" he urges. " Leave 

 en to puzzle it out fer hisself himself an' come to 

 the conclusion whe'r it sounds a likely story." 



For Daniel calls himself "an up-to-date sort o' 

 feller," and objects to bigotry from any point of 

 view whatever. " Us findy-seekle chaps goes fer 

 toleration," he says, and his politics and his religion 

 are alike devoid of prejudice, except at election 

 times, when his innate Liberalism becomes some- 

 what rabid in its quality. 



He is very firm on the subject of education. His 

 children dare not miss an attendance at school, for 



