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A' mention all these matters to satisfy you that a' have practis as a
magistrate, and won't have my duties to lern when a'm called upon to
discharge them.
"Klaim No. II. is as follows: A'm very unpopilar with the people, which
is a great thing in itself, as a' think no man ought to be risen to the
bench that's not unpopilar; because, when popilar, he's likely to feavor
them, and symperthize with them--wherein his first duty is always to
konsider them in the rong. Nether am a' popilar with the gentry and
magistrates of the kountry, because they despise me, and say that a'm
this, that and tother; that a'm mean and tyrannical; that a' changed my
name from pride, and that a'm overbearing and ignorant. Now this last
charge of ignorance brings me to Klaim No. III.
"Be it nown to you, then, Sir Tomas, that a' received a chollege
eddycation, which is an anser in full to the play of ignorance. In fact,
a' devoted meself to eddycation till my very brain began to go round
like a whurli-gig; and many people say, that a' never rekovered the
proper use of it since.


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