other's housekeeping, &c. All that artificial intercourse which
depends a good deal upon a well-fitted servants' hall does not find
place here. More simple and more plain and homely in speech and act
is our life in the colonies--e.g., you meet me carrying six or seven
loaves from town to the college. "Oh, I knew that the Bishop had to
meet some persons there to-day, and I felt nearly sure there would be
no breakfast then." Of course an English person thinks, "Why didn't
he send the bread?" To which I answer, "Who was there to send?."

'I don't mean that I particularly like turning myself into a miller
one day and a butcher the next; but that doing it as a matter of
course, where there is no one else to do it, one does sometimes think
it unreasonable to say, as has been said to the Bishop:--"Two
thousand pounds a year you want for your Mission work!" "Yes," said
the Bishop, 'and not too much for sailing over ten thousand miles,
and for educating, clothing, and feeding some forty young men!"

'I mean that conventional notions in England are preventing people
from really doing half what they might do for the good of the needy.

'I don't know how this might be said to be a theory tending to
revolutionise society; but I think I do know that there is a kind of
religious common sense which comes in to guide people in such
matters. Only, I do not think it right to admit that plea for not
doing more in the way of almsgiving which is founded upon the
assumption that first of all a certain position in society must be
kept up, which involves certain expenditure.

'A barrister is living comfortably on £800 a year, or a clergyman in
his living of £400. The professional income of the one increases,