The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-07-06

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profound NJ. d. to determine which of
their rotundities was best stored habitu-
ally with good victuals aod drink.
Upon close observation, however, of
the countenance of the Banker, discov-
cred, almost as soon as my eye fell upon
it, line bespeaking something of hu.
mour and awakened curiosity, as he
stood fixed and cycling his antagonist;
and this became more clear and conspic-
ucus when he lowered his tone and ask
ed" How will you make that right
appear"
"How,n said the beggar, "why listen
moment and III learn you-ln the first
place, do you take notice that God has
given me soul and body just as good
for all the purposes of thinking, eating,
drinking, and taking my pleasure, as he
has you--and then you may remember
Dives and Lazarus just as we pass.
Then again it is free country, and here
too, we are on an equality-for you must
know here even beggar's dog may
look gentleman in the face with as
much indifference as he would brother.
and you have the same common mas
ter. are equally free live equally easy,
AMI are L~th .rn--viiiug me same Journey
bound to the same place, and both have
TO die and be buried in the end" g But"
interrupted the Banker, "do you pre-
tend there is no difference between a
begger and banker?"
"Not in the least" rejoined the 9TH
er, with the utmost readiness "uot in
the least as to essentials. Yoh swagger
and drink wine, in company of your own
choosing-l swagger and drink beer,
which like better than your wine, in
company which like better than your
company. You make thousands day
perhaps-I make shilling perhaps--if
you are coptented. am-we're equally
happy at night You dress in new
clothes; am just as comfortable in old
ones !; and have no trouble in keeping
them from soiIing if | have less prop
eriy than yon have less 10 care about =;
if fewer friends, have less friendship to
lose, and if do not make as great fig
ure in the world. make as great a
shadow on the pavement; am as great
as you. Besides, my word for il, have
fewer enemies meet with fewer losses !;
carry as light heart, and sing as many
songs as the best of you"
sand them" said the banker, who had
all along tried TO slip word in edge
ways, " is. the contempt of the werld
nothing?"
The envy of the world is as bad as
its contempts you have perhaps the
one, and | share of the other. We
are matched there too. Andh4sides the
world deals in this matter ECU lily unjust
with us both. You and live by our
wits, instead Of living by our industry !;
and the only difference between as in
this particular worth naming, is, that it
costs society more to maintain you than
it does, mel am conteu; with little.
You want a great deal. Neither of us
raise grain or potatoes, or weave cloth,
or manufacture any thing useful, we
therefore add nothing TO the common
stock; we are only consumers; and if
the world judged with strict impartialty,
therefore, it seems to me would be
pronounced the cleverest fellow"
Some passers by here interrupted the
conversation. The disputants separat-
ed, apparently good friends; and drew
in my head, calculating somewhat in the
manner of Alexander in the PLAYS
there then 10 more difference between
beggar and banker
But several years have since passed
away, and uow both these individuals
have paid their last debt of nature.
They died as they lived, one Banker
the other Beggar. examined both
their graves. when next visited the
city. They were a similar length and
breadth; the grass grew equally green
above each; and the sun looked down
as pleasantly on the one as on the other.
No honours, pleasures, or delights, cfus-
tered round the grave of the rich man.
No finger of scorn was pointed to that
of the poor man. They were both
equally deserted, lonely and forgotten
| thought too of the destines TO which
they had passed; of that state in which
temporal distinctions exist not; tempo
raj honours are regarded not; where
pride and all the circumstances which
surround this life never find admittance.
Then the distinctions of time appeared
indeed as an atom 10 the sunbeam. com
pared with those whic1 are made in that
changeless state to which they both had
passed.
One Of the strangest escapes that we
ever heard of occurred last week TO r.
Barnes, groom and horse breaker, near
Whitehaven. He had under his care a