2IO LIBERTY AND A LIVING. 



ing shiftless by, who would not soonest salute 

 the scarecrow? Passing a cornfield the other 

 day close by a hat and coat on a stake, I recog- 

 nized the owner of the farm. He was only a 

 little more weather-beaten than when I saw him 

 last. I have heard of a dog that barked at 

 every stranger who approached his master's 

 premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted 

 by a naked thief. It is an interesting question 

 how far men would retain their relative rank if 

 they were divested of their clothes. Could you 

 in such a case tell surely of any company of 

 civilized men which belonged to the most re- 

 spected class? When Madame Pfeiffer, in her 

 adventurous travels round the world from east 

 to west, had got so near home as Asiatic Russia 

 she says she felt the necessity of wearing other 

 than a travelling dress when she went to meet 

 the authorities, for she ' was now in a civilized 

 country where people are judged of by their 

 clothes ! ' Even in our democratic New Eng- 

 land towns the accidental possession of wealth 

 and its manifestation in dress and equipage 

 alone obtain for the possessor almost universal 

 respect. But they who yield such respect, 

 numerous as they are, are so far heathen, and 

 need to have a missionary sent to them. 



" A man who has at length found something 

 to do will not need to get a new suit to do it 

 in ; for him the old will do, that has lain dusty 

 in the garret for an indeterminate period. Old 



