t a
religious lady was going to marry him. I asked him if he knew anything
about the Americans? He said he did, and that they were very bad people,
who kept slaves and flogged them. "And quite right too," said I, "if
they are lazy rascals like yourself, who want to eat without working.
What a pretty set of knaves or fools must they be, who encourage a fellow
like you to speak against negro slavery, of the necessity for which you
yourself are a living instance, and against a people of whom you know as
much as of French or Spanish." Then leaving the black, who made no other
answer to what I said, than by spitting with considerable force in the
direction of the river, I continued making my second compass of the city
upon the wall.

Having walked round the city for the second time, I returned to the inn.
In the evening I went out again, passed over the bridge, and then turned
to the right in the direction of the hills. Near the river, on my right,
on a kind of green, I observed two or three tents resembling those of
gypsies. Some ragged children were playing near them, who, however, had
nothing of the appearance of the children of the Egyptian race, their
locks being not dark, but either of a flaxen or red hue, and their
features not delicate and regular, but coarse and uncouth, and their
complexions not olive, but rather inclining to be fair. I did not go up
to them, but continued my course till I arrived near a large factory. I
then turned and retraced my steps into the town. It was Saturday night,
and the streets were crowded with people, many of whom must have been
Welsh, as I heard the Cambrian language spoken on every side.

CHAPTER IV

Sunday Morning--Tares and Wheat--Teetotalism--Hearsay--Irish Family--What
Profession?--Sabbath Evening--Priest or Minister--Give us God.

On the Sunday morning, as we sat at breakfast, we heard the noise of
singing in the street; running to the window, we saw a number of people,
bareheaded, from whose mouths the singing or psalmody proceeded. These,
on inquiry, we were informed, were Methodists, going about to raise
recruits for a grand camp-meeting, which was to be held a little way out
of the town. We finished our breakfast, and at eleven attended divine
service at the Cathedral. The interior of this holy edifice was smooth
and neat, strangely contrasting with its exterior, which was rough and
weather-beaten. We had decent places found us by a civil verger, wh