The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-12-30

have sold for sum sufficient TO purchase a
good theological library: ard he might be
considered as unusually lucky if he had ten
OF twelve dogseared volumes among the pots
and pans on his shelves. Even keen and
strong intellect might be expected TO rust
in so unlavorable situation.
The squire us llane.
''His chief serious employment was the
care OF his property. He examined sam
Piles OF grain, handled pigs, and on market
days made bargains over tankard with
dIove,s and hop merchants. His chief
pleasures were commonly derived from field
sports and from an unrefned sensuality.-
His language and pronunciation were such
as We should now expect to lear only from
the most ignorant clowns. His oaths,
coarse tests, and scurrilous terms Of abuse,
were uttered with the broadcast accent Of his
province. 1t was easy to discern, from the
first words which he spoke, whether he came
from Somersetshire or Yorkshire. He
troubled himself little about decorating his
abode, and, If he attempted decoration, sell
dom produced anything but deformity.-
The litter Of farm-yard gathered under
the windows of his bedchsmber, and the
cabbages and goosebeny bushes grew close
TO his hall door. His table was loaded
with coarse plenty; and guests were cor
daily welcomed to it. But, as the habit OF
drinking to excess was general in the class
to which he belonged. and as his fortune
did not enable him TO intoxicate large as
semblies daily with claret or canary, strong
beer was the ordinary beverage. The guam.
lity Of beer consumed in those days was in
deed enormous. For beer then, was to the
middle and lower classes, not only all that
beer now is, but all that wine, tea, and ar
dent spirits now are. 1t was only al great
houses. or on great occasions, that foreign
drink was placed on the board. The la
dies Of the house, whose business it had
commonly been to cook the repsst, retired
as soon as the dishes had been devoured,
and left the gentleman to their ale and to-
bscco. The coaise jollity of the afternoon
was often prolonged till the jewellers were
laid under the table.
1t was very seldom that the country gen.
tleman caught glimpses Of the great world
and what he saw Of it tended rather to
confuse than to enlighten his understanding.
His opinions respecting religion. government,
foreign countries, and former times, having
been derived, not from study, from observa.
ton, or from conversation with enlightened
but from such traditions as
were current in bis own small circle, were
The opinions Of child. He adhered to
hem, however, with the obstinacy which. is
generally found in ignorant men accus.om.
ID to be fed with fiattery. His animosiles
we're numerous and bitter. He hated French
men and Italians. Scotchmen and Irishnaen,
PaPists and Presbyterians, Independents
and Baptists, Quakers and Jews. Towards
London and Londoners he felt an aversion
which more than once produced important
political effects. His wife and daughter
were. in tastes and requirements. below
l~usekeePer or stillroom maid of the pre-.
tent day. They stitched and spun. brewed
Yoosebeny wine. cured msrgolds, and made
he crust for the veniaon pas.y.