The Life of George Borrow

Borrow was in reality endeavouring to convey to his little congregation, as he called them, some idea of abstract morality. He was bold enough to speak against their inveterate practices, thieving and lying, telling fortunes, etc., and at first experienced much opposition. About the result, he seems to have cherished no illusions; still, he wrote a hymn in their dialect which he taught his guests to sing.