= PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

everybody paid him. He received it—
expected it—would have been displeased
at the absence of it—because it was cus-
tomary for the flock to render it to the
shepherd. But when the ceremony of
receiving him was gone through with—
when you had got through the crust of
ministerial dignity, if I may say so,
which covered the person of the min-
ister from head to foot, and seemed to
render him almost too sacred to be used
except on Sundays, fast days, and
thanksgiving days—when you got into
the heart of the: man, you saw at a
glance that he was one of the last per-
sons in the wide world to be afraid of.