_Bragwell._ Think? why I think that he should be hanged, to be sure. _Worthy._ But suppose that bag stood in the king's treasury? _Bragwell._ In the king's treasury! worse and worse! What! rob the king's treasury! Well, I hope if any one has done it, the robber will be taken up and executed; for I suppose we shall be taxed to pay the damage. _Worthy._ Very true. If one man takes money out of the treasury, others must be obliged to pay the more into it. But what think you if the fellow should be found to have stopped some money _in its way_ to the treasury, instead of taking it out of the bag after it got there? _Bragwell._ Guilty, Mr. Worthy; it is all the same in my opinion. If I were judge I would hang him without benefit of clergy. _Worthy._ Hark ye, Mr. Bragwell, he that deals in smuggled brandy is the man who takes to himself the king's money in its way to the treasury, and he as much robs the government as if he dipped his hand into a bag of guineas in the treasury chamber. It comes to the same thing exactly. Here Bragwell seemed a little offended, and exclaimed, "What, Mr. Worthy! do you pretend to say I am not an honest man because I like to get my brandy as cheap as I can? and because I like to save a shilling to my family? Sir, I repeat it; I do my duty to God and my neighbor. I say the Lord's prayer most days, I go to church on Sundays, I repeat my creed, and keep the ten commandments; and though I now and then get a little brandy cheap, yet upon the whole, I will venture to say, I do as much as can be expected of any man, and more than the generality." _Worthy._ Come then, since you say you keep the commandments, you can not be offended if I ask you whether you understand them. _Bragwell._ To be sure I do. I dare say I do: look ye, Mr. Worthy, I don't pretend to much reading, I was not bred to it as you were. If my father had been a parson, I fancy I should have made as good a figure as some other folks, but I hope good sense and _a good heart_ may teach a man his duty without much scholarship. _Worthy._ To come to the point; let us now go through the ten commandments, and let us take along with us those explanations of them which our Saviour gave us in his sermon on the mount. _Bragwell._ Sermon on the mount! why the ten commandments are in the 20th chapter of Exodus. Come, come, Mr. Worthy, I know where to find the commandments as well as you do; for it happens that I am churchwarden, and I can see from the altar-piece where the ten commandments are, without your telling me, for my pew directly faces it. _Worthy._ But I advise you to read the sermon on the mount, that you may see the full meaning of them. _Bragwell._ What! do you want to make me believe there are two ways of keeping the commandments? _Worthy._ No; but there may be two ways of understanding them.