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will believe there is a Bible in the house ; I am 

 not so sure mentally of the stored library. 



PISCATOK. Do not at least doubt the Bible. 

 Did you in the best bedroom observe the 

 framed sampler hung on the wall ? It pleased 

 me much, so much indeed that I made a copy 

 of the words worked on it by the daughter of 

 our host, a maid, as stated, in her twelfth year. 

 I will read them to you, for they too are of the 

 olden time, and distinctive, as I hope and 

 believe, of the simple morals and religion of the 

 dales people : 



" Be you to others kind and true, 

 As you'd have others be to you, 

 And neither say or do to men 

 Whatever you would not take from them. 



" Teach me, Lord, Thy name to know, 

 Teach me, Lord, Thy name to love : 

 May I do Thy will below, 

 As Thy will is done above." 



AMICUS. Excellent words; I thank you for 

 repeating them. What a homily are they ; and 

 how much more deserving of being imprinted 

 on the mind than any of the formulas of the 

 modern Positive Philosophy. 



PISCATOR. And now, after our long talk, let 



