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CROTCHET CASTLE.
MR. CROTCHET.
Vintage of fifteen, doctor.
MR. MAC QUEDY.
The family consumes, and so does the state.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
Consumes, sir! Yes: but the mode, the proportions: there is the essential difference between the state and the family. Sir, I hate false analogies.
MR. MAC QUEDY.
Well, sir, the analogy is not essential. Distribution will come under its proper head.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
Come where it will, the distribution of the state is in no respect analogous to the distribution of the family. The paterfamilias, sir: the paterfamilias.
