Let the landowner pay the tithe, and charge the labourer a higher rent.

I pay the tithe on all my gains.'

The poor simple women, who believed the good friars were more like angels than terrestrial beings, did not refuse to pay the tithe.

She imagined that her husband knew that she paid the tithe, and replied;

I know, you paid the tithe, you're an honest sheep living under the bombardment like the rest of us.

"At least," she said, "you know very well that I must pay the tithe."

Mr. Drury says that forty years' search has failed to find a tither who has suffered hardship because of paying the tithe.

"Yes!" said he, "but let them be sure and not forget to pay the tithe."

"Has he paid the tithe due?"