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a barber of Bath had become so poor because he
would not shave his customers on Sunday, that he
borrowed a half-penny to buy a candle Saturday,
night to give light for a late customer, and was
thus discovered to be the long-lost William Reed
of Taunton, heir to many thousand pounds; "The
Just Judge," who disguised himself as a miller and,
obtaining a place on the jury, received only five
guineas as a bribe when the others got ten, and who
revealed himself as Lord Chief Justice Hale and
tried the case over in his miller's clothing; Haw-
thorne's "The Town Pump;" Mrs. Southey's "April
Day."
        "All day the low-hung clouds have dropped
          Their garnered fullness down.
          All day a soft gray mist hath wrapped
          Hill, valley, grove and town."

Bryant's "Death of the Flowers;" Campbell's
"Lochiel's Warning ;" and the trial scene from
Shakespeare's Merchant of Vewce. All these be-
came favorite reading exercises in later years.
  As late as 1840 the Bible was read daily in all the
schools of the WNest. Although sectarian or denom-
inational teaching was not permitted, religious in-
struction was desired by the great majority of
school patrons.
  Even up to the opening of the Civil War, what-
ever the faith or the practice of the adult inhabitants
of the coumtry, the Bible story and the Bible diction
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