Local government needs his assistance.

He may sit in an official position in the County Court, or at the bench of the Petty Sessions.

Law suits--locally great-- are carried through in the upper Courts of the metropolis; the counsel's name appears in the papers, but it is the country solicitor who has prepared everything for him, and who has marshalled that regiment of witnesses from remote hamlets of the earth.

His widening circle of landlord clients have each their attendant circles of tenants, who feel confidence in their leader's legal adviser.

Parochial officers come to him; overseer, rate-collector, church warden, tithing-man.