Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 244

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As an example of what piety means with some people, their sincerity consistency and do unto others, as you would wish others to do unto you: the writer with others, going to the Gabriel’s rush, was accompanied by a Canterbury man posing as a strict adherent to religion. The roads were simply horrible, mid winter, fire wood scarce. Some of our crowd helped themselves to rails from a fence, on camping, for there was not an atom else of firing. The Saint remonstrated. All the same, he boiled his billy, and cooked his meat by the same stolen wood fire; not only that, the dirty hypocrite, finding from enquiry that firing was even more scarce at the next camping ground, put a couple of rails upon his dray, and blessed the Lord. Many of you know him.