196 SWEEP. 



character I was enabled to study on the 

 box, there chanced to be a sweep, who 

 travelled with me two or three times 

 a-year. Though he was a master man 

 and came to collect his money from 

 his different customers, the Hertford- 

 shire farmers in that neighbourhood, who 

 used his soot for manure and I daresay 

 a wealthy man; yet was he every inch 

 a sweep in appearance, compass of in- 

 tellect, and desires ; for he seemed to 

 have no wish to be ranked above his pro- 

 fession. How little beyond him in con- 

 versation and capacity were one or two 

 noblemen, with whom at that time I also 

 became acquainted, who might have 

 changed stations, much for the advantage 

 of the community, with their own stable- 

 boy or game-keeper ! 



Sometimes a sober divine occasionally 

 a dignitary of the Church I found 

 seated by my side, whose conversation 



