106 DALE PASTOR. 



the school, the girls were receiving their lesson, 

 the boys were out at play. 



AMICFS. I like to think of this primitive 

 teacher, and of the respect attached to his 

 character for his usefulness and good conduct. 

 I hope he is aided by the clergyman, whose 

 comfortable house and spacious barns you 

 pointed out to me, and who, with his 307. 

 a year salary, house and glebe, is a compara- 

 tively wealthy man. 



PISCATOR. I believe not ; but do not ask me 

 about him, for what I have heard I could not 

 repeat with any satisfaction. You have read 

 of Eobert Walker, that remarkable man, the 

 former pastor of Seathwaite, in the vale of the 

 Duddon. Would that he were taken and fol- 

 lowed as a model by the clergymen of the 

 dales. Too frequently, judging from what has 

 been told me, they are the reverse of him; 

 neither making themselves useful nor respected; 

 lowering themselves mentally, and consequently 

 not elevating the minds of the people under 

 their care ; too often, in brief, giving way to 

 drinking, and falling into low sottish habits. 



AMICUS. I almost regret having started the 

 subject ; yet I should not say so ; for what you 



