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small, very small, living in England, lie did 

 so to the great regret of all classes. In a 

 pecuniary point of view he did not much better 

 himself by the change ; for, while the incomes 

 of both valuable pieces of preferment were 

 equal, the expenses of living in the county 

 to which he moved were trebled. But I ad- 

 vised him strongly to do so, as where he was, 

 with a wife and children, the future was a bad 

 prospect. He took my advice, and that of his 

 other friends, and there he is, "as you was," 

 as the drill-sergeant says, some fourteen years 

 ago, except that he has received some small 

 augmentation of £40 per annum to his means. 

 And yet all agree in sounding his praises as a 

 model parish priest. I visited him the other 

 day on my road north, only to find him the 

 same happy, contented being. Of course his 

 bishop is most anxious to do something for so 

 exemplary a man ; but somehow bishops never 

 find the opportunity of doing anything for 

 these plain, hard-working, parish priests. No : 

 tutorise, platformise, inspectorise, and you have 

 a chance. But there are so many good, hard- 

 working men, it would be invidious to select 

 one. It is like the army : the regimental 

 officers get the kicks, the staff the halfpence. 

 Oh, dear ! how I wish I was a bishop for only 



