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But there was greater game than this There was Lord Decimus Tite

Barnacle himself, in the odour of Circumlocution--with the very smell of

Despatch-Boxes upon him Yes, there was Lord Decihts on the wings of one indignant idea, and

that was, My Lords, that I am yet to be told that it behoves a Minister

of this free country to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the

charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to

damp the independent self-reliance, of its people

That was, in other words, that this great statesman was always yet to be told that it

behoved the Pilot of the ship to do anything but prosper in the private

loaf and fish trade ashore, the crew being able, by dint of hard

pu, to keep the ship above water without hireat art How not to do it, Lord Decilory of the Barnacle family; and let any

ill-advisedin

a Bill to do it, that Bill was as good as dead and buried when Lord

Decimus Tite Barnacle rose up in his place and solenantsoared around

him, that he was yet to be told, My Lords, that it behoved him as the

Minister of this free country, to set bounds to the philanthropy,

to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the