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If he had  been m Palestine in the early times, we  should have
had no references to * much  people * out of him.    No, he would
have  said * the beauty and the chivalry of Galilee' assembled to
hear the Sermon on the

Mount.     It  is  likely
that     the     men    and
women of  the   South
are sick enough of that
phrase   by this   time,
and    would     like     a
change,   but   there   is
no immediate prospect
of their getting it.
The New Orleans
editor has a strong,
compact, direct, un-
flowery style; wastes
no words, and does not
gush. Not so with his
average correspondent.
In the Appendix I
have quoted a good
letter, penned by a
trained hand; but the
average correspondent
hurls a style which
differs from that. For
instance—
The "Times-Demo-
crat^7 sent a relief-
steamer up one of the
bayous, last ApriL
This steamer landed at	guests.
a village, up there some-
where, and the Captain invited some of the ladies of the village to make
a short trip with him.    They accepted and came aboard, and the
steamboat shoved out up the creek.    That was all there was *to it.'