. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. Magistrate and Justicethereof. CHAPTER XIY. THE SQUIRE AND HIS VOLUNTEERS. The Squire and the Wenlock Yolunteers—Commmiity of Feeling—Threats of Invasion— Well follow the Squire to Hell ifnecessarj—The Squires Speech—His Birthday—His Letterto the Shreicshury Chronicle—Second Corps—Boney and Beacons—The Squire in a Eage—The Duke of York and Prince ofOrange came down. Not once or twice, in our rough island story,The path of duty was the way to glory. We fancy there was a greater community of feeKngin Squire Foresters day than now, and thatwhet
. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. Magistrate and Justicethereof. CHAPTER XIY. THE SQUIRE AND HIS VOLUNTEERS. The Squire and the Wenlock Yolunteers—Commmiity of Feeling—Threats of Invasion— Well follow the Squire to Hell ifnecessarj—The Squires Speech—His Birthday—His Letterto the Shreicshury Chronicle—Second Corps—Boney and Beacons—The Squire in a Eage—The Duke of York and Prince ofOrange came down. Not once or twice, in our rough island story,The path of duty was the way to glory. We fancy there was a greater community of feeKngin Squire Foresters day than now, and thatwhether indulging in sport or in doing earnestwork, men acted more together. Differences ofwealth caused less differences of caste, of speech,and of habit; men of different classes saw more ofeach other and were more together ; consequentlythere was more cohesion of the particles of whichsociety is composed, and, if the term he admissible,the several grades were more interpenetrated byasrencies which served to make them one. Gentle-. THE SQUIEE AND HIS VOLUNTEERS. 155 men were content with tlie good old Englisli sportsand pastimes of tlie period, and these caused themto live on their own estates, surrounded by and in thepresence of those whom modern refinements serve toseparate; and their dependants therefore were morealive to those reciprocal, neighbourly, and social dutiesout of which patriotism springs. They might nothave been better or wiser, but they appear to haveapproached nearer to that state of society when everycitizen considered himself to be so closely identifiedwith the nation as to feel boimd to bear armsagainst an invading enemy, and, as far as possible,to avert a danger. Never was the rivalry of Eng-land and France more vehement. Emboldened b}^successes, the French began to think themselves allbut invincible, and burned to meet in mortal com-bat their ancient enemies, whilst our coimtrymen,equally defiant, and with recollections of formerglory, s
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