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duty thoroughly. Even two or three hundred 

 people scattered over a wide area, with no resident 

 squire, and no inhabitant above the rank of a 

 farmer, gave a parish priest scope for a consider- 

 able amount of work at all events; and for one 

 like my father, who was never idle for a moment, 

 there was perpetually something to be thought of, 

 especially when he considered not even the most 

 seemingly trivial thing as beneath his notice. No 

 matter what other works of a literary kind he might 

 be engaged in and they were often many and exact- 

 ing yet he seemed perpetually to have every man, 

 woman, and child in the parish in his mind and 

 subject to his anxious care. He made it a rule 

 to visit every house once a quarter at least, though 

 practically his parochial visitations were of much 

 more frequent occurrence. He kept a careful record 

 of every visit he paid, as well as a communicants' 

 register. Not a day passed without a visit or visits 

 among his parishioners or to his school, and he 

 had a most extraordinary faculty of impressing 

 people with the feeling that each one to whom 

 he addressed himself was the one in whom he 

 was more interested than any other. To every one 

 he had something kindly or useful to say, and nearly 

 always something which he wished him to do. He 

 was a great believer in the value of tracts' and leaf- 

 lets, of which he distributed countless numbers ; and 

 in writing on two occasions to two of our leading 

 Church newspapers on this subject he remarked : 

 " I remember a clergyman once saying to me 



