Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1837-08-18

NY DEAR Sill IRE stiii lncllnen
! tu give me n few o Lr papers for our
m1ga4,ne we shall hist happy to in
ser, them, aud Femnnorate yon as
highly as we pay ~ esteemed contr'bu-
tors. We shall want on article ik next
! March, say twelve or sixteen pages, aud
shall leave space for it,
Yours, very truly,
NJ. B.
That evening Mr.. Shuflleton Pope was
! ab raC'ed, he answered not his uncle who
| would have converscd with him Louisa
was neglected, and he retired TO bed early;
but he could not sleep. he was in n fever
he threw of The Counterpart It was SO
hot, although ~ the month of February;
the blanket followed the c0nnterpaDe--
the sheet followed the blanket--at last Mr..
Shutileton Pope followed the sheet. for he
got Up and struck light. He felt himself
inspired his suppressed genus now bubled
and gu,bed forth like fountain. He sat
down to his article in his shr, and so
wrapped up was he in It. that he required
no other wrapper. He opened box con-
aiming all his rejected contributions, and
with their assistance commenced The Tale
Of Mysterv--a fragment" Geniuses al.
ways delight in fragments; indeed they
generally dine and sup on one Of them
Had he called j, many fragments instead of
one, he had been more correct, tor he com.
monced it with a piece Of a moral essay. on
10 winch he devastated part Of his tragedy,
| threw 10 a spice OF politics witt part of his
comedy, little bit of his farce, and wound
it up with poison and stlllettoes. 1t was q
tale of mystery, sure enough, for no one
could comprehend it. 1t had as many
joints as OCOnneI's tail, as homogeneous as
them, and like them only leading to one
end. At four o'clock in the morning, Mr..
| Shuflletons pope's tale was ended, and he
went shvering to bed, but could not sleep.
| Tie rolled to he rght-'At last, thought
he, they are inclined to do me justice
aud then be rolled to the left, They ac-
knowledge NY talents, and now they make
advances. golden career is still before
me. and as Shaksnearc SAYS. j do believe
I've caught cold" Thus did Mr.. Shuttle
ton Pope toss his body about, while his
mind was tossed on sea of uncertaln'y.--
He thought upon his dawnlng prospects
until the day had dawned, and, as he shaw
ed himself he came to the resolution to cut
the farm AND Louisa he did more than he
intended, he cut himself.
Snuff ton Pope. with his tale of mystery
in his pocket Departed in the same mystic
rlous manner mat he had done before He
arrived IN London, deposited his article at
the booksellers and he himself at ms old
quaijers L. !.Y days the magazine with
the articles Tor next month was announced
and advertsod aud at he head Of them ap.
peared the Tale Of Mystery "a fragment,
BY Shnti ton Pope Esq This time there
was no editorial erasures, 1t appeared in its
Whole length, for the publisher wished that
the public should be well acquainted with
Mr.. Shuilieion PoDe's claim 10 their admit
ration. Mr.. Shuiileton Pope read his tale
through and through, and over and over
again No one else could do The first. He
called upon the publisher, received his
money, but when he proudly observed tina,
he was ready 10 supply another upon the
same terms. the publisher modestIy limited.
that he had stopped the supplies. We
must now pass over three years during
which our hero struggled, and as he strug.
ged became more aud more enlangled in
the meshes of poverty. AT first, his name
so conspcuously put forward by the pub
Usher was the means of his writing n few
articles for The other magazines, but the
bubble soon burst, and Mr. Shuflleton Pope
descended from one grade to another. until
he was at the lowest round of the Gradus
ad parnassum. In rags and misery, with
! one half-penny in his pocket, he once more
turned his face from London and arrived
on foot at South Cooley, During the whole
of the three years he had never correspond.
ed with his uncle; he was ashamed to do
so; but during these three years he had
again eaten 10 his small estate, and this
time Mr. Shuillelon had not interfered to
save il.
i We must here premise that after Louisa
had wept her ialthrss betrothed for more
than year, she had by The persuasion of
Mr. Shufieton united herself TO a fine
young man, who was very fond of farming,
and very clever person wthal. lie had
but one fault. which was not discovered
until 1t was too late, which fault was that
he had II very 'reache7ous memory; in short
he bad quite forgotten when he espoused
Louisa, that he had at he time two other
wives still living, Bat one fine day, Just
after the second child was born, some cai-
mantS very Unexpectedly, at least to Mr..
Shuiileton and LOUISA, made their appear
ance. In the first place, two young women
claImedl hlm-also two constable of differ
ent parisheS-then the law claimed him.
and lastly, Jack kcrch The end of all
their numerous claims were that Louisa
found herself a single woman with two lille
gltlmatc children.
When our hero made his appearance, his
good hearted uncle saw but his poverty and
his rags, and forgot his Ill treatment of
himself and his child.
well, well, nephew, what's dones done.
You are back again and am glad to see
you, Things are not so well as when YOU
last came, aud when you last came they