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unadorned. We know all too well there is truth 

 in this charge. There is no ring on his finger, 

 no diamond on his shirt front ; the cuffs are 

 buttoned, or there may be no cuffs at all ; there 

 are no tanned shoes polished with lemon juice 

 or banana peel ; no golf stockings or cycling 

 suit ; not a trace of evidence that Fashion has 

 been ever heard of; but there is a glitter in the 

 eye that outsparkles the diamond ; there is the 

 line of strength in every muscle if not the line 

 of beauty, and through the sunburn that has 

 reddened his face shines an honest purpose that 

 fills his whole life ; an adornment that is too 

 often lacking when we pass the boundary that 

 divides town and country. It may be true, but 

 is it pity that the rustic is rude, untaught, 

 awkward, and unadorned, when, with all these 

 blemishes, he knows no fear, and in time passes 

 to another world without thought of cringing, 

 but to look directly in the face, all unabashed, 

 whomsoever he may meet in the realms of 

 eternity ? 



How true it is that the rustic loses when he 

 goes to town ! with the man of the city it is all 

 gain when he goes into the country. Lay 



