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dinner and a bottle of champagne at his elbow, spending 

 the five pounds kindly lent him to go home to his duties. 

 He brazened the situation out, finished his repast, wished 

 his friend good-night, and went on to the play. 



This frolicsome parson owed my father about i^iQO 

 for food supplied to him in prison. My father never 

 was paid a farthing of it. He was popular in his parish 

 with all his faults, charitable to the poor, and, I have 

 been told, preached excellent sermons. His rectory 

 house was generally barricaded against creditors 

 throughout the week, and only on Sundays could he 

 walk about in its grounds and visit his parishioners. 



These were men of the past. " Tally-ho ! Hanmer " 

 was a rollicking jolly sportsman, a bachelor, and a type 

 of a class once very prevalent in England. For good 

 or evil such men are no more. 



