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every good member of society making him- 

 self thoroughly acquainted with the Bible, 

 adding that he feared, from what he had 

 heard of the sporting propensities of his 

 brother, that he had not given up much of 

 his time to the perusal of that holy book. 

 The younger one sat silent and de- 

 mure, seemingly impressed with the im- 

 portance of the subject, as he was 

 seriously attentive to his brother's ad- 

 monitions. 



When he had concluded, my friend 

 sat some little time cogitating on the 

 discourse he had just heard, when the 

 parson rallied him, hoping he would not 

 take what he had said unkind, or even 

 deem it ill-timed. 



"Not at all, brother," he said, "not 

 at all. I was only thinking, when 

 David went partridge-shooting, whether 

 he had pointers or setters, and whether 

 he used the detonaters, or common flint 

 and steel." 



