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suddenly and rudely annihilated. Paddy 

 has never had a chance of learning his 

 lesson ; and now we are giving these poor 

 fellows our own free institutions, which 

 they neither appreciate nor know how to 

 use, and we wonder they make a mess of 

 them. How can they be misgoverned ? we 

 say ; have they not got just the same laws as 

 we have ? Yes ; but that is precisely what 

 they ought not to have. A box of surgical 

 instruments may be very useful things to a 

 surgeon, but they are not, therefore, the pre- 

 sent I should make to a set of children." 



" Well, but what remedy would you apply 

 now?" said the Squire. "You would not 

 restore the feudal state?" 



" Mine," said the Captain, " would be to 

 ask the devil for a month's loan of Oliver 

 Cromwell." 



" And you would succeed no better than 

 you deserve," said the Parson. " It must be 

 years of patient firmness — not days of vin- 

 dictive punishment. Restore the feudal 

 state ! I would if I could ; but you cannot 

 restore those feelings of attachment which 

 have been violently wrenched asunder ; you 

 cannot bring back that instinctive loyalty 



