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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-
crat7 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.'