An autobiographyMy schools and schoolmasters; or, The story of my education . town; 474 MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTEES ; and saw, as the only serious piece of business before the meet-ing, the Councillors clubbing pennies apiece, in order to de-fray, in the utter lack of town funds, the expense of a nine-penny postage. And then, with, I fear, a very inadequatesense of the responsibilities of my new office, I stayed awayfrom the Council board, and did nothing whatever in its be-half, with astonishing perseverance and success, for threeyears together. And thus began and terminated my muni-cipal ca
An autobiographyMy schools and schoolmasters; or, The story of my education . town; 474 MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTEES ; and saw, as the only serious piece of business before the meet-ing, the Councillors clubbing pennies apiece, in order to de-fray, in the utter lack of town funds, the expense of a nine-penny postage. And then, with, I fear, a very inadequatesense of the responsibilities of my new office, I stayed awayfrom the Council board, and did nothing whatever in its be-half, with astonishing perseverance and success, for threeyears together. And thus began and terminated my muni-cipal career,—a career which, I must confess, failed to securefor me the thanks of my constituency; and then, on the otherhand, I am not aware that the worthy people ever seriouslycomplained. There was absolutely nothing to do in the coun-cilship ; and, unlike some of my brother office-bearers, therequisite nothing I did, quietly and considerately, and verymuch at my leisure, without any unnecessary display ofstump-oratory, or of anythmg else. OB, THE STOET OP MY EDUCATION. 475. CHAPTER XXIII. Days passed; an now my patient stepsThat maidens walks attend ;My vows had reachd that maidens ear, Aye, an she cad me I was blessd, as blessd can be ; The fond, daft dreamer HopeNeer dreamd o happier days than mine,Or joys o ampler scope. Henrisons Sang. I USED, as I have said, to have occasional visitors when work-ing in the churchyard. My minister has stood beside me forhours together, discussing every sort of subject, from the mis-deeds of the Moderate divines,—whom he liked all the worsefor being brethren of his own cloth,—to the views of IsaacTaylor on the corruptions of Christianity or the possibilitiesof the future state. Strangers, too, occasionally came the way,desirous of being introduced to the natural curiosities of thedistrict, more especially to its geology; and I remember firstmeeting in the churchyard, in this way, the late Sir ThomasDick Lauder; and of having the
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