OLD MURRAY BAY 



can only pursue them in a few directions 

 and not far enough to be worth while, cut 

 into the charretier's trade cruelly by mak- 

 ing the driving and riding unsafe and less 

 desirable. As an owner was frank enough 

 to declare: — 'A motor at Murray Bay is a 

 dam nuisance to everybody not in it.' 

 One is in doubt which to admire the more: 

 the sentiment, or the exact propriety of its 

 expression. 



Church-going among Protestants has de- 

 clined — not less at Murray Bay than else- 

 where. The little community used to as- 

 semble itself on Sunday, and otherwise ob- 

 serve the day pretty faithfully. Granting, 

 if you ask it, that the motives taking some 

 to church are no better than those keeping 

 others away, there remains the bald fact to 

 register that the practice has ceased to 

 possess the character of a civility. It has 

 become rather more an optional matter 

 than whether you shall play golf of a Mon- 

 day. Does the disappearance of constraint 

 count for gain or loss? I have and suggest 

 no answer, but the achieving of a sem- 

 blance of unity among Protestants was 

 something noteworthy in a Catholic coun- 

 try, and courtesy at the least demands that 

 no less happy object-lesson should distract 

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