Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-12-21

ana putting guinea into his hand to shar
pen his memory. 'Phil, my dear fellow
don't show your face out of College for thi,
fortnight. You twig? God bless you!
mad hardly time to get to my room to have
my toga and trencher beside me. Newton
and Aristotle before me, optics, mechanics
and hydrostatlcs, strewed around in learn.
ed profusion, when my uncle drove up to
the gate.
'Porter / want to see Mr.. - said
he; is he in his roomsp
Yes, sir; Isaw him take heap of books
there not ten minutes ago.
This was not the first bouncer the Es-
sence of Truth, as Thomas was known
through College, had told for me; not the
last he got well paid for.
'Ay! very likely; reads very hard, dare
sayr
No doubt of that, I believe, SIR said
Thomas, as bold as brass.
'You audacious fellow! how dare you
look in my face and tell me such delibe-
rate falschood! You know he's not in Col
legen
mot in College! sir, as hope'-
None of your hopes or fears to me.
Show me his rooms. 1.-two hours ago did
not SEQ See him; yes, I've seen him,
and he's seen the last of me-.
He had now reached my rooms, and ne
yer shall forget his look of astonishment,
of amazempnt bordering on increduity
when calmly came forward, took his hand,
and welcomed him to Cambridge. NV
dear sir, how are you? What lucky wind
has blown you hereP
'What, George! ho-what-why-I
can't believe my eyes'
How happy am to see youp contin-
ued, show kind ofyou to come! how well
you're looking!'
'How people may be deceived! My dear
George, speaking rapidly,) met fellow
in tandem, in the Haymarket, so like you
in every particular, that l hailed lin at
once. The puppy disowned me---affccted
to cut joke--and drove off. Never was
| more taken off my stills. came down
directly, with four post horses, to tell your
tutor--to tell the master--to tell all the Col
lege, that / would have nothing more to do
with you; that | would be responsible for
your debts no longer; to enclose you fifty
pounds and disown you forever
My dear sir, how singularv
singular! wonder at perjury no longer,
for my part. ! would have gone into any
court Of justice and have taken my oath il
was you. never saw such a likeness. Your
father and the fellows mother were &C.
quainted, or I'm mistaken. The air, the
heighth, the voice, all but the manner, and
that was not yours. No, no, you never
would have treated your old uncle so.'
sHow rejoced am that
'Rejoiced: so am I. would not bu,
have been undeceiyed for thousand gum
cas-. Nothing but seeing you here SO quiet
so studious, surrounded by problems, would
have convinced me. Ecod! / can't tell you
how was startled. have been told some
queer stories, to be sure, about your Cam
bridge etiquette. l heard that two Cam
bridge men, one Of st. Johns, the other o
Trinity, had met on the top of Vesuvius
and that, though they knew each other b,
formerly introduced, like two simpleton
they looked at each other in silence, and lef
the mountain separately and without speak
ing; and that cracked fellow -commonel
Meadows had shown me caricature, taker
from the life, representing Cambridge
man drowning, and another gownsmar
standing on the brink, exclaiming, sOh
that had had the honor of being introduced
to that man, that might have taken the u
berty of saving him. But, 1t, though
I, he never would carry 1t SO fai with hi'
own uncle! Il never heard your father wa.
a gay man, continued he, musing; 'yet, a,
-, - tl,t l;rht hLapaec is ma
we'd instantly. But it's impossible; yo,
know it's impossible. Come, my dear fel
low, come; must get some dlnner.--Whe
could he bel Never were two people 81
aliker
We dined at the inn and spent the even
ing together; and instead of the fifty, tht
slast .tfy,' he generously gave me draf
for double The amount. He left Cambridge
the next morning, and his last words were
as he entered his carrige, My brother aca
a handsome man; and there uds Lad
Somebody, who; the world said, was parta
to him. She may have a son. Most sur
prising likeness. God bless you. Rea'
hard, you young dog; remember. Lik
as two brothers! never saw him again
His death, which happened few month
afterward, in consequence of his being bi
in bet contracted when he was a little ell
evated,' left me heir to his fine estate;
wish | could add, to bis many and nob
virtues. lido not attempt to palliate de
ception. 1t is always criminal. But, an
sure no severity, no reprimand, no re
proaches, would have had half the effec
which his kindness, his confidence, and hi
generosity wrought on me. 1t reforme
me thoroughly at once. l did not see Lon
don again till had graduated; and if m
degree was sunaccompaned by brilliant hon
ors, it did not disgrace my uncle's liberalit
,, or his name. Many years have elapsed sine
our last interview; but never reflect on
without pain and pleasure--pain, that ou
last interview on earth should have bee
: marked by the grossest deception; and plea
sure, that the serious reflections it awaken
: ed cured me forever of all wish to deceive
and made the open and straight forwar
. path Of life that Of AN OLD STUDENT.
TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION
We copy the following detail from tn
doings of the st. Louis police office, as re
ported in the Bulletin of the 9th inst. w
dOubt NOT il is true in eyery PARTICULAR