. Thackerayana;. EARLES M1CR0C0SM0GRAPHY. 187 attendant on their kennels, and the deepness of their throats isthe depth of his discourse. A justice of peace he is to domineer in his parish, and do hisneighbour wrong with more right. He will be drunk with hishunters for company, and stain his gentility with drippings of is fearful of being sheriff of the shire by instinct, and dreadsthe assize week as much as the prisoner. In sum, hes but a clod of his own earth, or his land is thedung-hill, and he the cock that crows over it ; and commonly hisrace is quickly run, and his childrens child
. Thackerayana;. EARLES M1CR0C0SM0GRAPHY. 187 attendant on their kennels, and the deepness of their throats isthe depth of his discourse. A justice of peace he is to domineer in his parish, and do hisneighbour wrong with more right. He will be drunk with hishunters for company, and stain his gentility with drippings of is fearful of being sheriff of the shire by instinct, and dreadsthe assize week as much as the prisoner. In sum, hes but a clod of his own earth, or his land is thedung-hill, and he the cock that crows over it ; and commonly hisrace is quickly run, and his childrens children, though they scapehanging, return to the place from whence they came. A Plain Country-Fellow. A plain country-fellow is one that manures his ground well,but lets himself lie fallow and untilled. He has reason enough todo his business, and not enough to be idle and seems to have the punishment of Nebuchadnezzar, for hisconversation is among beasts, and his talons none of the shortest,. only he eats not grass because he loves not salads. His handguides the plough, and the plough his thoughts, and his ditch andlandmark is the very mound of his meditations. He expostulateswith his oxen very understandingly, and speaks gee, and ree,better than English. His mind is not much distracted withobjects, but if a good fat sow come in his way, he stands dumband astonished, and though his haste be never so great, will fix 188 THA CKERA YANA. here half an hours contemplation. His habitation is some poorthatched roof, distinguished from his barn by the loop-holes thatlet out smoke, which the rain had long since washed through, butfor the double ceiling of bacon on the inside, which has hung therefrom his grandsires time, and is yet to make rashers for dinner is his other work, for he sweats at it as much as at hislabour ; he is a terrible fastener on a piece of beef, and you mayhope to stave the guard off sooner. His religion is part of hiscopyhold, which he take
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