I am unused to the dark nights of the countryside.

This self-gratulation is very natural; but it is not very just. The desire of knowledge is innate in human nature. We are all born more or less of a Paul Pry, and inherit a good dash of the temperament of our general mother.

Not only are persons of a holy life made to shine with a more radiant brightness, but common Christians, of no note or visibleness, are changed to a saintly character.

An ovate implement from the Lower Chalk plateau has a few similar rechippings, and tells the same tale.