For want of a due degree of this responsibility, the public expenditure of the present age,—determined chiefly to the sustaining of burdens imposed by a preceding age,—perpetuates many abuses: and, though much ameliorated by the less unequal distribution of power, the public expenditure is yet as far from being regulated to the greatest advantage of the many, as the many are from exacting due responsibility and service from the few. When this service and responsibility shall be duly exacted, there will be— Necessary offices only, whose duties will be clearly defined, fully accounted for, and liberally rewarded: Little patronage, and that little at the disposal of the people: No pomp,—at the expense of those who can barely obtain support: but Liberal provisions for the advancement of national industry and intelligence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note Hyphens appearing on a line or page break have beem removed if the preponderance of other occurrences are unhyphenated. Those words occurring midline are retained regardless of other occurrences. The following variants were retained: schoolhouse / school-house, grandchild / grand-child, eyebrows / eye-brows, evildoers / evil-doers, bedside / bed-side, headache / head-ache. On some occasions, a word spans a line break, but the hyphen itself has gone missing. These fragments are joined appropriately without further notice here. Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. BRIERY CREEK. 26.21 [“]There goes Dods! Removed. 73.20 if it did not come too late.[”] Added. 94.5 Dr. Sneyd was very thankf[n/u]l> for his aid. Inverted. 97.3 she had grown p[ro/or]megranates Transposed. 101.10 a damsel dressed in tawd[r]y finery Inserted. 109.10 which must give way.[”] Removed. 152.3 to be so remembered.[”] Added. THE THREE AGES. 50.27 for his Maje[s]ty’s service was more Inserted. 55.2 in order to build[ing] a new one Removed. 97.10 the animal should be immediately sacrifi[c]ed Inserted.