Excerpt from A Parish Providence: A Country Tale

Self-display seems pitiful beside the picture of practical wisdom and cheerful, silent sacrifice which constitute the life of the country doctor. When I first read the Media'n de Campagne (on which this story is founded), I thought an Irish gentleman could scarcely lay down the book without self-reproach if he had done nothing to aid his own people by similar counsel or example in a country where discipline and guidance are so painfully needed Our people are so destitute of practical and technical teaching, that a man here and there who acted.

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