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N ASKOV.
Chap. L.
to himself, as you may imagine, but that was what he
liked. He tried it with the pigs first, but they answered
with a grunt, which disturbed the thread of his
conversation.
In our own country we are universally of opinion
that an ex-pedagogue is ill-adapted to form a good
parish-priest, more especially when he enters upon his
duties late in life. Of a certain Sir Edward it is here
recorded that, on his retirement from scholastic duties,
he not only flogged his men-servants when caught
out in any dereliction of duty, but his maids into the
bargain. He lived for the rod, and by the rod; and if
he swore by anybody—which it is to be hoped he did
not—it must have been by King Solomon. When the
bishop of the diocese on his pastoral round lodged at his
house, he determined to teach his diocesan humility, so
he served him kail and cabbage, while he treated his
servants to venison steaks and wine.
NASKOV.
An hour and a half’s drive brings us to the city of
Naskov. We alight at the hotel. “Why, we
expected you by the steamer last week,” said the
landlady ; “ had all your rooms prepared and dinner ready.”
Some busybody had chosen to announce us.
Naskov boasts a fine church, lately well restored; a
very fleet of vessels hang suspended amongst the
coronas. When Frederic IV. visited the town, and his
eyes first lighted on its church-tower, tall and slender,
capped with its stunted mail-work of slate, he exclaimed,
“ Well! never before have I seen a stripling with such a
low-crowned hat.” Nothing very clever; but the loyal
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