Don't ever ask directions of a Maine native, I was told. Why ever not? Somehow we think it is funny to misdirect people and we don't smile when we do it, but we laugh inwardly. It is our nature.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
