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the workshops and see the processes employed, 

 and the number of hands and the division of 

 labour engaged in the making of a thing so 

 simple as a pencil. Ah! here we are at the 

 churchyard. 



AMICUS. As you deprecated criticism on the 

 memorial to Wordsworth in Grasmere Church, 

 so I think it is best to refrain from it in the 

 instance of Southey's. The only wish I will 

 venture to express is, that it were better seen. 



PISCATOK. The occupation of our churches by 

 pews, with a view to comfort, has a woeful 

 effect artistically considered. This church, now 

 of so spacious a size, has been enlarged since 

 the poet's time, and at the cost of another indi- 

 vidual a benefactor of Keswick, to whom I 

 believe the town is indebted for that large 

 schoolroom hard by ; and not for that alone. 



AMICUS. Happy examples these of the volun- 

 tary system ! Would that Government would 

 exert itself a little more, not in the way of cen- 

 tralisation, to which it shows a bad tendency, 

 but in acts of local beneficence, and in memory 

 of the distinguished dead. What a gracious 



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