A RACY READING OF AN OLD QUOTATION FROM SCOTT.
(Suggested by Burns.)
"My foot is on Newmarket Heath!
My name, Jem Lowther!"
The benefits that Sir John Lawes has been able and will yet be able to confer on agriculturists everywhere, including those in his immediate neighbourhood, cause him to be regarded as a living exception to the rule about a prophet in his own country. So, in that part of England, "Profit and Lawes" are synonymous terms, meaning the same person.