"A man of his age with the asthma may live for twenty years," said the Senator who had already learned that Mr.Puttock was only fifty.

Then he ascertained that Mr.Puttock had not been presented to, or selected for the living on account of any peculiar fitness;--but that he had been a fellow of Rufford at Oxford till he was forty-five, when he had thought it well to marry and take a living.

"But he must have been asthmatic then ?" said the Senator.
"He may have had all the ailments endured by the human race for anything I know," said the unhappy host.
"And for anything the bishop cared as far as I can see," said the Senator.

"Well now, I guess, that couldn't occur in our country.

A minister may turn out badly with us as well as with you.